I work in a corporation with an IT-department that is all in on whatever Microsoft is offering. My team has for some time gotten more and more autonomy in tooling as IT is overloaded and forced to relinquish some control, but we still rely on them for supplying compliant machines that have access to our resources.
I requested a Linux machine just over 5 months ago, and I finally got it this week. It is running Ubuntu with GNOME, not my first choice, but the only thing that is Microsoft Intune compliant as far as I know.
So far it is such a relief. A better specced machine with less bloat running on it. It should be far between any OOM-issue I get now… Slightly annoying having to use Edge for any service requiring corporate SSO, but I’ll swallow that pill…
I just run whatever linux I want in a hypervisor and make it my daily driver for everything other that teams calls… (I can’t seem to make Linux do any echo cancellation). The mac just can’t do the basics I need on its own, it’s workflow nightmare. Short of pains of being on an ARM64 CPU, the VM does pretty well. Started off using UTM, then switched to Parallels. It’s not always perfect, but it is SO much better that straight up MacOS.