| Previous employer issued Macs with all sorts of Jamf spyware stuff on them but I could more or less install things as needed via brew (both internal-vended "taps" or whatever the term is) and "normal" end-user stuff without issue (it was often expected you'd do so). Worth noting this absolutely impacted usability and stability to a massive degree. The machine ran far hotter to the touch than my personal (equivalent model) MBP, and would make it maybe a month of uptime before it failed to wake from sleep/kernel panic'd/locked up the desktop. Most other typical desktop software was "vended" via internal software "store" thing (managed browsers, etc), but I could, and did, install various extensions on Firefox (internal Wikis even encouraged using Tampermoney (or whatever the successor is called now) like UBO/Sideberry etc. Current employer issued machine is a Windows laptop with no admin and basically locked-down. Even getting something like Docker installed/WSL configured is a whole episode in frustration. The huge positive is this Enterprise-whatever version of Windows has minimal slop--no CoPilot things or ads in the start menu/lockscreen, but I can't even change the desktop wallpaper. Also, the CPU idles at basically 40% utilization with the various agent things/endpoint security running. For any sort of local development, I largely "sidestep" things by running whatever I need in containers/WSL, so it's really not a huge problem. There's minimal Windows-specific use outside of Teams/Outlook whatever. |