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Do you use both a personal desktop and laptop? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago by DiscoShrew@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm moreso curious if laptop functions have been offloaded to phones. If you have a full gaming desktop, do you see the use case for an additional laptop? or if most people here don't see the need for the increased processing power of a desktop, do you just use your laptop and a phone?

For myself, I mainly use my desktop, but I have a bunch of quite old laptops for tinkering.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have a personal gaming desktop and, at last count, ~~three~~ four laptops. I'm part of an IT department and I have a bad habit. I take junked laptops from the scrap bin home and repair them, then lose interest once they're working again.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can make that habit even worse by installing Arch Linux on them from scratch after repairing them.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

😳 I kinda... did.

(Okay, Arch from scratch on one. Endeavour on another. Mint on a third.)

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like how it went from Arch to Mint.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Tinkering with Arch is fun. Using it, less fun.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

lucrative habit if you resell them later