A desktop with a large (24") screen and suitable fonts, keyboard and mouse. It is enough of a pain to work with a laptop, and I do not think I could do any serious work with smaller devices.

i use a desktop from time to time but now that laptops have become so much faster and memory is less costly i find it more useful .
Wworps [ nick siomkos ]

Hi Jeremy.

Just curious -- what's your primary computer? Mine is a Desktop.

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Desktop because it's more powerful and more comfortable to work at for long periods of time. I do also have an old laptop though that I use when I need a computer somewhere else in the house or if I'm going to a friends place and we plan on hacking together.

I do also use my phone quite a bit but I don't think that really counts since it's really just to browse the internet, chat, take notes, and try out some of the latest open-source apps. Oh, and of course to SSH and VNC into my desktop when I'm elsewhere in the house or not at home.

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For me laptops are the best

Shouldn't Chromebook be included in the Laptop category?

Mine is a Lenovo ThinkPad (T61). It's considered a Laptop, but I have it installed on a docking station for increased capability. I never move it - for mobile computing I use an iPad mini.

I use desktop and laptop but laptop consumes less power, is quieter and survives the occasional domestic power supply failure

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Which smartphone operating system are you using that you’re able to run open source apps on your phone? Android or Ubuntu Phone?

I’m curious because my current phone is an iPhone, and I haven’t seen any open-source software in the App Store.

I frequently use my laptops & phone

Custom built workstation running openSUSE LEAP 42.2

Humor DoctorPepper, (couldn't send you a pm yet.)

" ... useful to be in front of the computer... "

A laptop, and it has been this way since ~2007.

I have had a quite high tech career and dabble in likewise hobbies, but my preferences are firmly rooted in the times of made in USA, no global menuing, that is - as in a switch is a switch, an indicator lamp is just that or an LED, tuning is done by way of a tuning knob. The more metal than plastic the better. Linear function adjustments via linear, dedicated controls. Rectilinear industrial art vs. swish. No bizarre, unfathomable styling quirks. Function controls that control their intended functions. User maintainability within reason. No whiz-bang bells or whistles not serving a useful, needed purpose. No keeping up with the so-and-sos. No requirements to have the (as advertised, and so they say) latest and greatest. No affinity for alphabet soup hardware hyperbole...

And no unavoidable or absolutely necessary interaction with MS Whindoze and/or its ilk. And I much appreciate hardware that is heavy duty, durable, and reliable as a smithy's anvil. At least that's what I tend to strive for.

So I use a 2007 Dell XPS 410 heavy metal desktop, running 16.04 LTS, that is rock solid stable and snappier than most desktops, laptops and other gadgets I've seen that require for their functionality the latest W-10 disasterware.

All made possible by the existence of Linux and those who came up with it and continue with its refinement and work hard at increasing its capabilities. Thanks, folks.

I know that was quite far beyond the simple question asked. Sorry 'bout that

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