and even if you don't, using a slow machine is still not a great experience. Opening a shell, reloading a page, switching tabs, running git pull, decompressing

and even if you don't, using a slow machine is still not a great experience. Opening a shell, reloading a page, switching tabs, running git pull, decompressing an archive, linting, building etc. All these things will take noticably longer to the point of being frustrating on a low-end machine.