About My Current Home PC Work Environment

Hello, I'm Incompetent.

There's no particular punchline or anything, but I'll just write about how I'm currently doing PC work, just to pass the time.

Working by SSHing from X230 to Home Server and VPS

What I'm currently using as my main machine is an X230 with only the keyboard swapped to an X220 one.

At home, only the server PC is always running. I also have a custom-built PC that can dual-boot Win+Artix Linux on separate drives, but I hardly use it now. Well, I only touch Windows for work, and I no longer boot it at home.
*To reduce disk wear, I only insert the disk when I'm going to use one of them.

So, I almost always access my VPS and home server by SSHing from my ThinkPad X230.

Sorry, Desktop, You're a Hassle

Sitting in a chair, turning on the monitor, bringing drinks... It's just become too much of a hassle. (Tehepero)

With a laptop, I can open it anywhere, and closing it turns off the screen. Since it's a ThinkPad, I can use the TrackPoint, and despite the shallow key travel, the typing feel is good, so my fingers don't get tired easily.

Also, while environments vary from person to person, does a dual monitor really increase efficiency that much?
The operating area becomes wider, causing unnecessary mouse movements, and while you're concentrating on one task, are you really looking at the other monitor that's powered on? Is there really that much truly essential information that needs to be displayed constantly? I'm an idiot, so I can't manage that many things.

I'm also the type who dislikes having too many browser tabs open because they waste resources, so I only open enough tabs that I can still read their text. In fact, if you're opening so many tabs that you can't even see their names, wouldn't it be better to compile the URLs in a text file or bookmark them and read them properly one by one? If the browser freezes and you lose the open pages, it's all for nothing...

Delegating Processes to Each PC

My ThinkPad X230 is a GNU/Linux machine, and I've never really had trouble with its processing power. Rather, for tasks like ffmpeg, I want them to run until completion, so I offload them to my home server.
It's more accurate to say that I've never had any problems precisely because I offload all high-load tasks to my home server.

At least, I'm not a "programmer"; I'm "incompetent," so my usage involves testing scripts and such on my ThinkPad X230 before running them on my home server for operational testing.

I Don't Even Play Games

Seriously, I don't play games.
I recently replayed Dragon Quest V, but right before the final battle with Milly, I was overcome with a sense of emptiness, thinking, "Ah, it's going to end," and I stopped there.

I've probably played it about 20 times, but no matter how many times I play, it's too much fun, and I don't want it to end. I'll probably do the same thing another 20 times.

As for smartphone games, I dislike the feeling of accelerating battery drain, and I can't stand the long waiting times for updates every single time. Why are the update sizes so huge every time?
I've really come to realize since graduating from school that playing games on a game console is the best.

The same goes for PC games; seeing the HDD/SSD unnecessarily burdened by constant updates makes me feel sorry for them, so I've started uninstalling games every time.

I've been criticizing games quite a bit, but games like Cave Story and the Dragon Quest series (though I've only played up to 8) are divine. Also, most Game Boy games are masterpieces.
I played Harvest Moon up to "A New Beginning," but I remember development not progressing much after that, so I stopped there. The old browser-based Harvest Moon game was fun too.

In particular, I played Qix on the Game Boy like crazy.
It's simply listed as a classic game, and I don't know if I'm just not seeing it, but it's simply top-tier fun.

Oops, I Got Sidetracked...

In reality, it feels like there isn't as much need for excessive CPU performance nowadays, or rather, the required specifications haven't risen as much in comparison to the CPU's growth speed.
If I were to say "just the bare minimum is fine," that would be it, but instead of forcing inadequate resources onto something with poor performance, it feels more efficient to offload tasks to other machines.

While it's always better to process things quickly, I had a question: Is it efficient to run heavy processes on a PC that's also running a desktop environment? Because of that question, I'm currently working in this kind of environment.

See you again.

Thank you.