Compute-heavy stuff is done on shared development servers.
I use Linux servers at work. But multiple Xwindows into many different
apps is taxing on its own on your PC along with all the local apps you
may be using. I have a desktop (rebuffed an offer to switch to laptop
a few years ago), my boss chose a laptop. I sit close enough to hear
him swear when things bog down on his laptop when he is doing a
bunch of EDA stuff with many dozens of windows in the background.
Or overheat and crash/shut-down/spontaneously reboot. Or discover
his charger is defective. Why don't you look up figures for typical
MTBF for laptops in a corporate environment. It ain't pretty.
There's this thing called the cloud that's taking the world by storm
Yes my wife is an accountant and her previous employer switched to
a cloud based operation. Nothing better than an office full of highly
paid specialists and managers sitting around doing nothing because
of a network outage, or misconfigured/mismanaged software at the
provider. I am not sure they ever met regulatory requirements for
customer data retention and privacy. The big wheel will turn again.
It allows their employees a lot of mobility and flexibility of operating systems.
Yes, flexibility like more employees than offices. Dump them all in
open areas. Great metaphor for the relationship between employees
and employer at some companies today. Don't let the cattle feel too
comfortable.
Well, not just me. It works at my workplace.
Yeah I get it. You are well into the laptop kool-aid.
Fill yer boots. Enter spreadsheets on your smart phone for all I
care. I just don't accept your view that a laptop isn't a significant
compromise in personal computing in terms of usability, flexibility,
reliability, or value for money.
