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by mschuster91 517 days ago
> Such as the focus on laptop over traditional multi-user systems.

When was the last time you actually saw a true multi-user system other than large corporate Citrix environments? Computers aren't expensive any more, every employee gets issued a laptop these days.

Developers go where users go, that's it.

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There are many multi user systems still in use. Think HPC, universities, places where the security requirements do not allow code / data to be shared by access from a users laptop. Operations vs. Development. Operations is much more likely to be multi-user.
> When was the last time you actually saw a true multi-user system other than large corporate Citrix environments?

Now. Yes, Employees all do have laptops, but the shared servers are beefy af.

At least at Google ~10 years ago, the dev laptops were used to SSH into beefy workstations where all the real work gets done.
~5 years ago, you SSH'ed into your Linux workstation under your desk, or your equivalent VM.

although blaze builds didn't do the real work on your machine, but farmed it it to cloud machines.

Developers are users. Stop forgetting that.