I currently use a Windows 10 dev laptop because I use it for other non-development tasks (ex. Creative Cloud) that require Windows. So I'd already need to run i

I currently use a Windows 10 dev laptop because I use it for other non-development tasks (ex. Creative Cloud) that require Windows. So I'd already need to run in a VM. And then there's the issue of making SSL certs and setting the hosts file to capture our domains, and installing all the build tools. I've got a 1.5 Mbps connection with horrible latency, my server has gigabit fiber somewhere in NoVa. With this, I can throw up a remote IDE with high quality plugins on our dev server, which is just a low-spec clone of prod. I can do a docker system prune and rebuild everything from scratch in seconds instead of hours because the npm packages download instantly. And it helps to stop "non working code -- push to test" commits in our GitHub. Another would be developing ARM code using native ARM toolchains on a SoC board.