Desktop all the way (provided you have money to spend). 1. Multi monitor support is way better on Desktop with discrete graphic card(s) . You can have high res

Desktop all the way (provided you have money to spend). 1. Multi monitor support is way better on Desktop with discrete graphic card(s) . You can have high resolution + high refresh rate on all monitors. With Macs, only the M2Max chip has decent support, and limited to >100hz only on one monitor. I have 2 ultrawide 34 inch monitors on top of one another, and its fantastic having all the windows you need to be open shown. Im so used to this that I actively notice all the time I waste tabbing windows on the laptop. 2. Way easier to expand/modify/repair desktop. 3. You can get a small cheap laptop running linux for work/dev away from your desk, and then SSH into the desktop if you need processing power. With VSCode Remote SSH extension this works very well. The advantage to doing this is that a) if your laptop gets stolen on travel, you aren't losing work or much hardware and b) it gives you more options in terms of laptop choice (for example, I have one with a numpad because of scientific computing). For security, I use a t2.micro EC2 instance with SSH tunnels that I spin up when I im on travel.