Usually Infosec forces the use of MacBooks over Linux laptops as they find the latter harder to secure.
I hope those "Infosec's" don't have Linux servers to secure ;)
It is harder to find anti virus software that runs on Linux, at least I am told.
Ah the snakeoil that drive a whole industry ;)
You can make it work but it requires more effort than most corp teams are willing to put up with.
True but often 24x7 connected to the world...but yeah you are right, not often do you loose a whole server ;)
I also wouldn't characterize it as "harder to secure" but rather "extra work to support." A homogenous endpoint fleet makes all IT tasks significantly easier, and endpoint management tools for Linux tend to be less mature and more difficult to work with.
Only 1 browser to secure! Infosec requires an activeX compatible browser for installing expensive security contraptions. IT can't possibly tolerate Firefox! What, there are more browsers out there? What, Microsoft creates a new browser? What, marketing sent out a new campaign only viewable in Chrome? What, our own site doesn't work in Internet Explorer, and nobody noticed in 2 years?
After fighting their own users for over a decade and looking very sad-kitten-face when every single one of their dastardly back-stabbing users did not follow the holy dictates from above, enterprise IT found out it was actually possible to secure a browser that was not internet explorer. I expect Linux to go the same way. In fact, it did just that for servers.
I assume in lots of cases devs have a fair amount of leeway in installing stuff locally, maybe if you set up a VM you run a whole desktop in there.