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My work dictates that I use an issued Thinkpad or a Macbook Pro, and we are not allowed to install our own OS choices on those. I like the Thinkpads they give u

• oneplane 7y ago
  Just a reminder: your work is wrong. The idea behind is that they have 'supported configurations' where 'supported' often means 'trying to reduce service desk load' and 'pretending that imaging a system once and then hoping the lifecycle on all of them is the same'. In reality that is almost never the case (unless the systems are reduced to barely usable configurations), and you end up with a system that is only 'work-supportable' on the surface, while being a pain for everyone else. Some of the recent changes I've seen happening at an increasing scale is having practical support levels: - fully-managed - half-managed - BOYO (Being on your own) This is then applied to both company-delivered systems as well as BYOD systems. Combined with standard interrogation tools like osquery you can get a much better picture of what is happening and what level of compliance you can measure. Instead of them implicitly trusting or hoping a device is okay you actually get to measure it. This enables a BOYO-BYOD BSD fanboy to present themselves as being in-spec and compliant while being in their own comfortable environment for maximum productivity. At the same time, someone who has a hard time figuring out how to turn a laptop on just goes for fully-managed, still gets measured periodically and on-access and gets a generic experience allowing normal-people productivity.