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  • I have a System76 laptop with Pop-OS LTS that I’ve been using for about 2 years now. It’s very stable. It’s gnome based with customizations by System76.

    I was allowed to choose any laptop I wished with a budget of $3k. I chose this system because I knew I’d heavily be working with many docker containers. It allowed me to purchase a system with support that had more ram and nvme storage than what a mac offered.

    I use it mostly for writing backend golang and python services. I used emacs for many years to do this kind of work, but have switched to vscode for code navigation convenience and parity with others on my team if we have to pair program.









  • 86box is a little different than dosbox in that it fully emulates the hardware. Performance might still be an issue in your case, though. I have an emulated voodoo banshee system for playing old games and it works great for my use case of supporting old glide games. My thinking being if it can support glide emulation that it would be able to support anything from the dos era. I could be wrong though.