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For a regular user, probably not. Contemporary dev work with spurious containerization on the other hand… Maybe some companies should give their employees two

by mhd 6y ago

For a regular user, probably not. Contemporary dev work with spurious containerization on the other hand… Maybe some companies should give their employees two systems. Your average way too expensive bragging rights laptop, and a smaller older one which is the only one you're allowed to do your code review/productive commits on.

dec0dedab0de 6y ago
How about an undersized laptop for testing and coding. But a personal server for under their desk with k8s already installed.
- mhd 6y ago
  People, for some kind of reason, really like their laptops. They also have more brand recognition, thus the "bragging right" part, when you get your new X1/Macbook every 2 years. And if you still work on your laptop but have your personal server box as a CPU slave, that still leaves some issues. You might be able to do your build steps on the machine, but your IDE still runs on your laptop, so that needs to be beefy enough -- never mind auxiliary applications like browsers, Photoshop, CAD etc. Also, it's quite hard to get a slow laptop with decent ergonomics, unless you buy used (not that much an option for companies). Also, once you go headless server, it's better to just put it online anyway, as you don't need 24/7 access