IT tends to have OS snapshots and a selection of standard software and configuration every machine goes through. Yes this shifts the responsibility, to where it belongs.
If you're just running Linux VMs to have standards, why are you bothering with Mac or Windows?
I wasn't trying to claim you could have all the same things, the example was to put a spin of similarity on a difference. When you start talking about practical maintenance of thousands of systems, you've moved the discussion away from similarity and differences to a different problem space.
I am quite happy to discuss those challenges and what might be done about them, I didn't think that was what the article was about.
IT tends to have OS snapshots and a selection of standard software and configuration every machine goes through. Yes this shifts the responsibility, to where it belongs.
If you're just running Linux VMs to have standards, why are you bothering with Mac or Windows?
I wasn't trying to claim you could have all the same things, the example was to put a spin of similarity on a difference. When you start talking about practical maintenance of thousands of systems, you've moved the discussion away from similarity and differences to a different problem space.
I am quite happy to discuss those challenges and what might be done about them, I didn't think that was what the article was about.
Because we have developers running Windows and Mac on their laptops.
I'm not sure I get your point but you could also say Windows and Linux have a lot of similarities, or MacOS and Windows.
Its not, the article is about differences between Mac and Linux.