The only caveat is you can't do things modify kernel params etc... but that's usually ok for my use YMMV obviously. Also they don't update Atlas with new images so you need to build your own but that's really easy[2].
1. https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc 2. https://github.com/obnoxxx/vagrant-lxc-base-boxes
I wasn't aware that it had gotten as good as those links look so thanks! :).
Interesting. Something like that would be absolutely impossible here in Germany. I recall that we weren't allowed to buy any furniture from Ikea because office furniture must be certified to a certain level of fire-resistance, and Ikea doesn't bother with those certifications. There are dedicated vendors for office furniture for that reason.
Small/Medium companies here don't really care about that stuff in fact I don't think anywhere I've worked has ever considered that stuff.
This was the one I built where I am now http://imgur.com/a/H7fxb
Currently typing on one of these. I hate the loud clicking noise though, especially with co-workers around me. Are there any similar but less noisy versions of it?
The 4000 isn't really that loud (I found it was louder with the front edge on as it creates a void space under the keyboard like a speaker) especially compared to the mechanical I was using before.
[1] https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-gb/products/keyboar...
I know people who've used those and love them, I personally didn't too much like a laptop keyboard the travel feels wrong.
Current plan is Ryzen 1700(possibly X)/32GB DDR4 (2x16GB, board supports 4 slots so can upgrade if needed) (going to need a lot of virtualisation capability to handle dealing with multiple legacy systems, windows for interop and 8 cores with 16 threads at that price is a hard match from Intel), 500GB SSD with 1TB WD Black and a pair of decent monitors, comes in about half what the tricked out iMac comes in at, RX550 (I don't care about 3D but I want to be able to drive the screens without onboard graphics and ATI will support the RX550 for some time since it's new and the linux drivers are excellent these days for ATI).
MS Ergo 4000 keyboard and a decent mouse.
I asked the boss and he said "I don't have a clue on hardware, just send me a shopping list link and I'll order it".
I think I'm going to like this new place :)
Given the budget is top of the line iMac I could have gone to 1800X and 64GB of RAM but why kick the arse out of it and I'm into diminishing returns with either of those. Current systems are 32GB desktops and I rarely wish I had more but I do find the i5-xxxxK's limiting since once you load a couple of vagrant machines, an instance of Windows for Edge testing and Intellij things start to slow down quite quickly, it's not an IPC thing (the cores are fast enough, just not enough of them).
I'll move to a standing desk but I'll built that myself since I know exactly what I want (I built my current one) down the line.
I did consider a good Thinkpad with doc/screens but since I'll spend 95% of my time in the office the trade off of performance/comfort for the 5% of the time I'll be in a meeting made no sense, basically any cheap thinkpad or similar will do for meetings.
I know some people prefer not having to sync between machines and just pick up and go with everything but work is for work, everything else is for not work.
I put a fair amount of thought into the hardware, since I'm in-house developer #1 at this place I'll be an army of one for a while, I wanted a machine that was fast enough to be to do multiple things while I work, I want to be be able to run integration and unit tests while continuing to work (at least locally until I tame the main codebase and get it under proper CI).
It's a fun engineering challenge because their underlying business is complex and highly bespoke and their existing 'main' system was written over many years in a style that was obsolete when it was written.
I'm seriously looking forwards to it and they are nice folks.