True you need a VM but performance doesn&#x27;t have to be crippled. My out of office&#x2F;at home machine is a Dell Inspiron 5558 (Core i7, 16GB RAM). I stuck an intel 256GB SSD in it, took the free upgrade to Windows 10 and do all my dev work in a few Virtualbox VMs (leaning heavily on mRemoteNG for lots of tabbed PuTTy instances!).<p>Total cost (including the Intel SSD) was £726 or $1049 at today&#x27;s rate (exc. VAT). So didn&#x27;t cost a bomb and gives me a lightening fast machine, windows for desktop duties, debian for dev, a 1920x1080 display, easily replaceable battery&#x2F;ram&#x2F;disk and no issue driving multiple monitors.