I have worked at a number of jobs where it sometimes required me to use coding. I was not treated like a programmer ever. I was given very old hardware and expe

I have worked at a number of jobs where it sometimes required me to use coding. I was not treated like a programmer ever. I was given very old hardware and expected to do my work. The worst computer I had was a Dell machine which had an i3 CPU and 4GB of RAM. Opening VS Code on this machine brought it to it's knees. I solved this issue by simply using Emacs instead. It uses far less memory, didn't cripple my system, and it is after all my preferred text editing environment for the last few years. I eventually got fed up with Windows bluescreens that I switched to Linux, and then I spent more time fixing other people's older Windows machines than doing my tasks. Emacs has me sucked in and I don't see myself going anywhere else. Now I'm using Emacs on another old Dell with Linux in another workplace, and it's fantastic to use as always.