alt Hacker NewsInteresting. If you don't mind, I have a few questions:
1. Is the "big VM with root" running macOS itself, or a different OS?
2. Do you do any work on the bare metal version of macOS, or do you just start the VM in the morning and do everything from there?
3. How do you experience the performance/UX of the VM?
4. Do you know why Company B IT has set up this VM solution, instead of a plain old MacBook locked down with Apple's enterprise management tools?
5. Can you explain more about the App Store? Is it the actual Apple App Store but restricted to a curated set of apps, or is it a different system? If so, is the store a custom in-house thing or is it provided by a vendor?
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It's funny because some 25 years ago we did the exact opposite. Corporate IT insisted on some Windows software, so we each ran a Windows VM that the corporate could pretend to remote manage.
(This was at a branch office where every employee worked on very low-level Linux kernel code, so yeah everyone ran their favorite Linux distro.)
There are multiple choices of OS but it's mostly Windows or Linux. Note, we don't do any mac/arm development.