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Are you a laptop or desktop computer person? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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I prefer laptops cuz I like things that can move with me and I can put wherever, not be chained to a desk etc. its basically never unplugged but I dont care, i need to be able to move and also wired printing

Ironically, im most productive on my phone but i like to have a bunch of shit running in the background like torrents/soulseek/multiple audio output apps so i need a laptop to handle alm the non serious stuff

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No?

I run virtual sessions from my local server, my VPS, and my laptops and desktops on whichever device I’m closest to. Sometimes that’s a phone and keyboard.

And I’ll often have a laptop open with nothing running other than VNC and RDP sessions to non-laptop devices.

And this doesn’t even get in to virtual machines, which I run on everything but the phones.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How does one know or arrive at the conclusion that one needs a virtual machine?

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

In many different ways. I need to test things in different environments and in the past have helped develop virtualization tech, so it’s a no-brainer for me.

Someone who has two computers so they can run two different OSes? Next time they upgrade, they may want to consider virtual machines on a single computer instead.

Do anything related to hosting, computer security, systems development or tweaking that affects the entire OS in a way that may not be compatible with other things you do? Virtual Machines help containerize what you’re doing.

Virtual machines also allow you to set full system snapshots so you can roll back to known good configurations.

Running a suite of services in Docker images means you can migrate them anywhere with no reconfiguration needed; to the client system, nothing changes.

This also means I’m still able to run the same environment I’ve been using for the past 20 years, but locked down so that I don’t have to worry about security issues as much; I do the same video and photo editing I did 20 years ago, so why not use a familiar and dependable interface to do it?

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