iPad? OK, if you don't want a laptop and can live with it. Android tablets? worse.

11" - 13" can already be too large, maybe not for you.

Chromebooks - would be the 1:1 replacement if they weren't usually 12" or more

The price. Sure, inflation and all but I paid 300 for my eeePC, new.

This looks cool but I care a lot more for even 100 bucks than 10 :P

I own more (and have them running right now) machines with linux than anything else and yet I'm not saying people can just switch. The problem is usually not "can do at all costs" but "can do with a reasonable addition of extra steps/relearning/tool does not exist/etc". There's some nuance and when I have some spare time I will (again) try to switch that one machine, but "it just works" maybe can also mean you're not using it for a diverse enough set of things.

In my case the reasons are actually quite boring: some hardware I couldn't get running and some (maybe minor) things that drive me nuts. The hardware is kind of a deal breaker atm. And yes, some people do a lot more weird things at home, my work machines were running Linux for 90% of the time since 2010ish.

I'm not disagreeing at all here, I tried live latexing my math courses and it was hard. I wish I had had access to a cellphone + good digitization back then. (just scanning it in was kinda pointless and I graduated about the time Android came out)

Writing down stuff has always been what you make of it.

Kinda depends on the prices. Where I live you can be lucky to find anything resembling a living house for under 1m EUR. First you'd have to be able to do a calculation and say 'I can afford that', only then it makes sense to ask the lifestyle question.

FWIW, my parents had to spend the first 1-2 years renovating a lot in their house (in the 90s) but after that it wasn't really that much of ongoing stuff. Small garden helps a lot though.

I don't even remember (been a while since I did lots of interviews) if you're allowed or not allowed to ask any of the aforementioned things but I can tell you from experience that about half the candidates would mention their partner and/or kids anyway, because it just is usually not a problem. But it's not such standard fare that someone not mentioning would raise a flag either. I guess most of us just don't think about it.

Also, tech is a bit different and I am not that old - but in Germany you could see a ton of personal details absolutely no one is interested in on CVs, but it's getting better. (What your parents do for work, if you are married, what name you had before marrying, if you have a driver's license for a desk job, what primary school you went to, etc.pp)

But it was also part of the worst interview I have ever had and these misguided 5 minutes for a weird intro were on the low end of the wtf scale.

Maybe that's just anecdata, but I hated them a lot less. (I am mostly a Backend dev who also does Frontend, so I don't love any of them.)

[0]: and by that I mean my whole team at the appropriate time, it's not simply me misunderstanding things

And even those of us who have activated it, have hardly used it for the most part, or hve concerns.

The first computers I used were 486 with DOS and early Pentiums with Windows 3.11 and nothing looked nearly as nice. Some of those old screenshots look A LOT better than stuff 10 years later that I used (incl MacOS 8 or 9).

Like, I don't even disagree with what he wrote, but most of the stuff just felt a little out of place and intruding on people who generally want to be left alone or keep it to small talk on a different level.

i.e. if i have virtual desktops 1-2-3 on my 3 screens in order, I can switch out 2 for 4, but 1 and 3 stay put, so 1-4-3. if I want 1 to be in the middle now, I will switch 1 and 4, then I have 4-1-3. Now I can get 5 onto the left and have 5-1-3.

And it does not matter if I have a single big window, or whatever tling wm layout.

The point is that everyone can work however they want. When I use a tiling WM, half my screens/virtual desktops are fullscreen and half are tiled. sometimes 50:50, sometimes in other ways.

I don't see anything wrong here except the price ;)

The tab switching is one of the main things that annoy me on a mac, and I'd describe myself as a linux tiling window person first, windows user only second.

Also my mac usage is hopefully only temporary, so why adopt to this - to me - inferior way.

And jftr, I don't plan to use this - I kinda like NPP, but I prefer to use TextAdept on Linux and Mac for notes anyway (and not vim, which is weird, but I guess I am weird with my choices).