We get the choice between a couple different kinds of Lenovo laptop which come stock with a special build of RHEL, or a Macbook. For the most part you have fre

We get the choice between a couple different kinds of Lenovo laptop which come stock with a special build of RHEL, or a Macbook. For the most part you have free reign to install whatever OS you want (usually Fedora, but sometimes CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch) as long as you get your work done and don't pester IT about supporting your non-standard configuration. I don't know how common this is outside of engineering, though.