[stracer]

Some corporate employees use a notebook loaded with extremely invasive and performance-degrading security and spying software that can't be uninstalled. When your available cpu and disk time is 10% of what the hardware can do, you need as efficient editor as you can get.

[mattlondon]

You're probably not going to be able to install random binaries from the internet on those kinds of machines though.

[stracer]

Sadly true... Maybe in a few years, if it gets popular enough, and the key decisionmaker gets wooed into allowing it.

[akdjidensb]

Don't need to install them if they are portable (most everything can be made portable with some work, see scoop packager manager for instance). As long as the company isn't batshit crazy and has the resources and IT spend to afford to use something like applocker, in which case I'd seriously recommend looking for other employment if you cannot get explicit guarantees about administrative access.