> Do you still own personal laptops/computers even when their employer provides them a specced out model Yes. Reasons: I control the personal ones (yes, plur

> Do you still own personal laptops/computers even when their employer provides them a specced out model Yes. Reasons: I control the personal ones (yes, plural), so they run what I want (Linux) and do not spy upon me. Work machine is a w10 laptop, with all the usual corporate "spy on you" stuff, and the long policy document of "don't use work equipment for ...". So work machine is used only for work purposes. No personal usage of the work laptop occurs, ever. Then, there is nothing on the work machine that "work" might get all upset about. In fact, the work laptop and VPN hardware box have their own, isolated, ethernet card just for them in my firewall, with strict firewall rules such that the subnet run over that ethernet card has no visibility of anything going on on the rest of my home network. > Do you prefer building your own desktop for the value per dollar Yes. In fact, all but one computer is a desktop model. The last one is a laptop, it also runs Linux, just like the rest. The firewall I mentioned above is another desktop model running Linux, which is how I could simply add another ethernet card and configure the firewall rules to make a hardware and software isolated subnet for the work laptop.