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.
Im a gamer and only use a desktop. I dont see why I would use a laptop additionally.
Desktop has been offloaded onto gaming laptop.
Personal desktop, work laptop, personal phone and work phone.
I am on the fence about getting a laptop as well, it is just sutch a fantastic tool.
On my future laptop, if I get one, I will run Linux as it extends the functionallity of a laptop massively.
I would mostly use it for managing photos, media consumption, SDR listening, network analysis and light gaming.
At the moment I an quite happy with my personal desktop computer running Windows 10, but with the insane crap M$ is pulling with Windows 11, I even disabled the TPM in my computer to avoid W11 from installing automatically.
I do however work in IT with Windows 11, and I enjoy my job, so that won’t change.
Curious and trying to learn:
How does Linux extend the functionality of a laptop?
desktop for work and games because of its much cheaper and easier maintenance, at half the cost of entry for similar specs. and phone.
i dont often use my laptop
Use my desktop for gaming, use my laptop for development and travel. It’s nice to be able to sit in the living room while someone is playing a game, or sit out on the patio while I work on something.
Laptop only. But I almost exclusivly use the laptop in a desktop setup with external screens and peripheral. And for now it’s even good enough for gaming, so there really is no need for a proper desktop.
Use my laptop for everything, need it a lot at uni and it’s beefy enough for desk tasks. Don’t game anyways so I never hit a heavy load.
Work laptop is set up as desktop and stays there most of the time. iPad is used for daily out of office tasks. At home, Surface (Windows tablet with keyboard) is used when i need to type something away from the office.
Gaming PC is in the living room for gaming and media center.
Laptop in my office up stairs for programming and I use Steam Remote Play for games that require keybmouse. Its nice because I can just unplug it from my dock and head downstairs with it if I want to browse on the couch.
I have a tablet too, but that’s used solely for movies, YouTube, or when I’m DMing because the footprint is smaller.
Got a gaming laptop that functions for everything. Not as powerful as a dedicated tower, but being somewhat portable is worth it for me.
Win 10 desktop for recording with Reason. Laptop running Linux Mint for everything else.
Just laptop. I don’t have a space for desktop, unfortunately.
my laptop is my personal desktop ;)
Shit, I have all of the above, in multiples.
I have kind of abandoned keeping a gaming PC up to date because I get sick of the bullshit. But the one I have currently isn’t too far behind, hardware wise.
But I use it for piracy, image management (including editing), video editing, etc. The stuff that punks out other devices.
I have a dedicated media PC that is hooked up to the TV and stereo, but is isolated from anything else. That’s what I still run Windows 7 on because musicbee on Linux isn’t ready for prime time.
Then there’s my wife’s old computer that’s hooked up to my kid’s tvt, not that it ever gets used. But it’s functional, so until it dies, that’s what it does.
My laptop is exclusively for my writing. Dual boot with win 10/mint Linux. The win10 exists only for a specific piece of software that makes publishing to amazon easier. No games, but I do some media playback with it when I have to travel.
Phones suck at media management, word processing, and pretty much everything else tbh. Too many lobbyists limitations, too much crap for proper multitasking, no good apps for long form writing. But I do use them as music players at home via headphones.
Tablets are for portable video consumption, crappy mobile games, and reading. Some short form writing is possible on a decent tablet.
I don’t see phones taking over much of what I use a laptop for, ever. And the screen size of even the biggest phones would suck for media management, even if it was realistic to store large amounts on one.
Desktop, laptop, phone.
Desktop for heavy workloads and work when at home
Laptop for work when at work
Phone is useless for any sort of meaningful work and is used for Slack and/or browsing memes.
It’s not necessarily even that phones are too weak for work, it’s that it’s god-awful to try to get any work done on a phone when the only input method you have is touchscreen.
