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
I own a laptop which stays on my desk and never gets moved.
100% desktop, the ergonomics and economics are just way better. I still own a laptop, but it’s decidedly a secondary device - most real work is getting done on my desktop.
I suspect that nowadays, a majority of people are getting most or even all of their computing done on a phone. Probably doesn’t apply to the average Lemmy user, though.
I updated my body text to reflect your phone comments which i am guilty of. I hate shopping on it tho, thats more of a laptop thing for me.
Also i dont code on a phone its too annoying
TBH the main issue with phones for coding is that it’s complicated or impossible on most phone models to connect a bigger screen, though it seems to become more common.
I think it would be better if it was standard for every app to have code folding implemented but all the mechanical concerns obviously still remain
Desktop.
I like laptops but if I’m using them for ‘serious’ work, they don’t have enough ports, docking stations can get funky, 95% get way too toasty to keep your hands on, and the keyboard ergonomics usually suck. They’re also harder to repair.
Desktop at home, laptop away from home.
Old man here. Desktop only. Phone is for phone calls, GPS, and camera. Tablet for reading in bed, and light browsing.
I was a graphic designer, I used beast machines, packed with RAM and two big monitors. When I worked on 15GB Photoshop files under deadlines I needed a machine that could push pixels and a color corrected monitor. Never a laptop, obviously.
Also the laptop format is bad for me, because of my vision. I see best with glasses when the monitor is about four feet away, but of course I need the keyboard and mouse closer.
I don’t have a desk job, but the past few days I’ve been inputting data on my laptop for a few hours a day, and my neck/shoulders hate it.
I would much prefer a desktop computer for ergonomic reasons, in this situation.
I feel like im the only adult without back pain haha
Give it time…
desktops all the way.
When my workplace switched from workstation desktops to lap tops was not a good day.
8 grand worth of fucking dell laptop with less ability than a 4 grand desktop. Doing something serious? Thermals say no.
The dell docks are a symphony of issues with multi monitors, network cable drop outs etc.
Oh you plugged another USB device in? Allow me to remind you that you are out of USB resources. Sorry, how would you like both mouse and track pad to cease functioning until you restart?
It is of course no lightweight either so actually taking it anywhere is a joke. Battery barely lasts 2h if you aren’t plugged in. Also don’t be thinking you can plug it in to just any dock, if it’s a generic one, then it ain’t getting enough power and it will tell you all about that, before doing weird shit if you try to share your screen in a teams meeting.
Plus taking it out of the office means connecting via a VPN which is slow as fuck and you can’t do any real work over it anyway.
Also, using a laptop actually as a laptop? The ergonomics of that are not to my taste. Horrid keyboard right next to the screen. I can’t stand it.
I want this but its so expensive 😭
PSP? Or is that one of those Steam thingies
Looks like GPD WIN 4, but it’s last gen, and will probably remain out of stock.
The current one is GPD WIN 5, and starts at a modest $2250 USD. The screen seems fully stationary, so no keyboard, though.
The win 5 has no keyboard so i dont want that. If the 6 has one i consider buying…
What consoles can it emulate up to approx?
Its a gaming pc so it can do what a high end gaming pc can do
Laptop plugged into a screen, keyboard and mouse when at home.
The ergonomics of laptop use is terrible, but it’s very useful to just pick it up and take it with me when I need to be away from home.
Laptop for work because of the flexibility. Desktop for gaming because of the storage, computing power, and more universal upgradibility.
Depends what I’m doing.
Working on a document? Sending emails? I can take my laptop wherever, do it in the park and make a nice day out of mundane tasks.
Gaming? Video editing? Nah I want my desktop. I’m fairly tall and hunching over a computer at a table isn’t very nice. I have it set up so I don’t fuck up my body sitting for hours at a time. I also have a 7 button ergonomic mouse that’s not very transportable.
I suppose docking a laptop is an option, but I typically buy laptops second hand so I can’t lose my more expensive hardware because I got stoned at the park and forgot it.
Work? Give me a laptop because I’m not always working from the same spot. External mouse, keyboard, monitor, and it’s fine.
Personal? Desktop is better for games. Most things work on the phone. The remainder fan largely wait until I’m home.
I have both. The last time I turned the laptop on was probably a year or more ago. I just don’t use it. I have a phone for portable computing and the desktop is a decently powerful gaming PC so it takes care of my Big Computer tasks with aplomb. And it plays video games. The wonders of modern Linux.
aplomb
There’s a $150 worD
Yeah, I’m from a time before there was an internet.
Lord knows im glad to be a beneficiary of that
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.
How does one know or arrive at the conclusion that one needs a virtual machine?
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?
Want to play that game you bought in 2001? It might not run on Windows 11 or macOS 27, but it’ll fly on TinyXP on modern hardware.
Depends. For gaming, desktop, for everything else, laptop.
Like you said, the laptop can move with me, so that’s a huge plus. If I don’t need the discrete graphics card, there’s very little reason for me to prefer a desktop at this point. Laptops have gotten so good in the past ~6 ~7 years.
