If you're the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vend

If you're the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vendor decides they don't like me, but I accept that I'm a dinosaur. But the main reason for wanting things local, for me, is that the sole reason I have a Windows VM is to plug various devices into it for which there's no software for OS X or Linux. Yes, there are hacky methods for some USB use cases, but I don't think having the logic controlling my laser cutter executing 12 hops away is going to go so well.