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> It seems unlikely that we'll get ARM-based machines, especially ones that we expose to people to log in to and use

I don't really get why this is an assumption, in fact I'd heavily bet against it the not so distant future.

A lot of research labs run consumer hardware for cost reasons and we are still quite far away from non-Mac ARM desktops being available to consumers.

The problem is that most of the consumer hardware manufacturers, from motherboards, to CPU coolers, etc are all geared towards AMD and Intel.

I think he meant in his environment, not for IT in general.

That makes sense, but I'd love to know why it wouldn't work for them (especially in a post about how things are becoming a monoculture OS and architecture wise).

Going off my experience, it might be about not wanting to mix replacement part pools, or just biases about ARM being underpowered among management. It sounds like they're running everything on-prem, whereas a "cloud-native" org probably doesn't care as much.

Still, I already log into an ARM machine at home. No other choice at this point. And ARM at work was at the top of my todo list when I left my last job.

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