I did that for a while when my previous laptop broke. It was fine with a lightweight linux desktop but it was quite slow using an ultrawide screen and horribly

I did that for a while when my previous laptop broke. It was fine with a lightweight linux desktop but it was quite slow using an ultrawide screen and horribly slow for some compilations, but it felt like an "almost there" concept, just arrive to the office and turn on the screen. With a normal resolution and in a cloud IDE environment or interpreted only languages like python could have perfectly worked, also for everyone who doesn't need exotic binaries. Some thoughts I had were also, that I could have set up a server-web IDE on it and work on the way with a tablet and a keyboard without rely on a third party cloud, but again, I needed to compile binaries.