I’ve thought about this dual desker problem. It always seemed wasteful lugging around a whole laptop and not really needing the battery and carrying around an extra inferior keyboard and screen.
My thought is to run off a live SSD. My idea was also to introduce a layer of virtualization and a copy-on-write filesystem with FS level syncing for backup. Then you’d have a full disk image backup so you could pick up right where you left off in a VDI if you lost the SSD.
I used to carry around an 11" laptop when I had to give a bunch of presentations in unfamiliar conference rooms. It was the main reason why I switched to Apple around 15 years ago for my travel laptop (couldn’t get Linux-friendly hardware with good battery life and seamless display/audio support over DVI/DP/HDMI and whatever audio setup they’d have for me) while still keeping a “main” Linux laptop for around the house and a headless server sitting next to my router.
I’d love to have that 11" form factor again, with modern thunderbolt/USB4 docking stations at my work desk, home office, and whatever desk I might hotel at or whatever. I rarely used the small screen or keyboard but it was nice to have that option on the move (like in an economy plane seat).
I’ve thought about this dual desker problem. It always seemed wasteful lugging around a whole laptop and not really needing the battery and carrying around an extra inferior keyboard and screen.
My thought is to run off a live SSD. My idea was also to introduce a layer of virtualization and a copy-on-write filesystem with FS level syncing for backup. Then you’d have a full disk image backup so you could pick up right where you left off in a VDI if you lost the SSD.
I used to carry around an 11" laptop when I had to give a bunch of presentations in unfamiliar conference rooms. It was the main reason why I switched to Apple around 15 years ago for my travel laptop (couldn’t get Linux-friendly hardware with good battery life and seamless display/audio support over DVI/DP/HDMI and whatever audio setup they’d have for me) while still keeping a “main” Linux laptop for around the house and a headless server sitting next to my router.
I’d love to have that 11" form factor again, with modern thunderbolt/USB4 docking stations at my work desk, home office, and whatever desk I might hotel at or whatever. I rarely used the small screen or keyboard but it was nice to have that option on the move (like in an economy plane seat).