I've always pushed the envelope of my computer, but have stopped doing that lately since I have embraced minimalism and one-idea-at-a-time principle. I have bee

I've always pushed the envelope of my computer, but have stopped doing that lately since I have embraced minimalism and one-idea-at-a-time principle. I have beefy hardware that can run several virtual machines and have multiple Electron apps running in the background, but have stopped all that in favor of lean and simplistic environments. I typically do this by compartmenting different computing activities into different buckets, so I can focus. So for example I boot into a hard-drive that is for casual surfing of the web with a few beers, and strictly for leisure. Another hard-drive for web development, and having the environment customized just for web development. Another hard-drive for trying out new software which typically degrades and breaks the system over time which is why it's specifically for trying out software (it doesn't affect my other systems).