Some piece of company malware on my MBP causes it to panic every two or three days. Before that it got mad fan disease and had to be wiped to get it back to 'normal'.

I have eight icons in the menu bar for installed malware/spyware/whatever on my company owned laptop. That's just the stuff that has an icon, I bet there's more (including JAMF, for sure). It's ridiculous.

> use something that destroys CPU and battery

Before you even mentioned falcond, I immediately knew that it was clownstrike

falcond is CrowdStrike’s endpoint antivirus thingy, not device management.

As usual, antivirus is an exercise in trading performance for increased attack surface (and compliance).

As history shows, antivirus is an exercise in trading performance and increased attack surface for checking a box.

The issues you experienced are squarely on the shoulders of your Jamf admins.

It doesn't have to suck, but it usually does because the people put in charge of it are incompetent, or at best, semi-competent. Most self-respecting engineers run fast from this sort of thing.

Having worked with JAMF's API... I don't like it, but yeah, this is not normal and something as to how your company is using JAMF.

The people in charge of this are usually more of the IT than 'self respecting engineers'

I moved from a company that gave us fresh off the store MacBooks to one that managed them using jamf and a host of other antiviruses and compliance software, and I tell this to all of my colleagues: the experience you're having with your MacBooks - the poor performance, stuttering and random beachballs aren't representative of what MacBooks are actually like.