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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ggg9990 on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:33PM (#16740063)
The managing multiple kinds of machines issues is a real one, speaking from the other end. For uniquely talented software engineers I might let them use what they want but from managing an IT department you definitely want anyone who has no reason to be otherwise on the same exact hardware and software configuration.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by tetha on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:33AM (#16742151)
Yeah, at my last place, the deal was: First we have to find 5 - 10 devs who want to switch to linux (there were 50 - 100 in total). Then we get a PXE boot image to install linux and, well, DHCP. We get to try it for a couple of month, while producing documentation on how linux works with the infrastructure.

That feels like a fair solution.

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