Well I use Ubuntu for a lot of years without any major headaches, thus I cannot speak for Arch Linux.
I have seen my colleagues from the mobile team having some headaches with their Macs, specially the ones from the Android team, that where forced to start using Macs, thus I don’t don’t see that much convenience, but this is my point of view,
Now saying that Linux computers are not even up for consideration and that Macs are the way to go, is just an illusion, but hey I see this behavior in anything, cars, mobile phones, you name it… if the brand have status, anything else is treated as not worth it.
