90 karma · joined July 2, 2015
i've been using a custom new-tab-page extension for a long time, it even comes with an integrated alarm-clock!
while i agree with your point about this being sub-optimal for both software-development and free software as a whole, i think it is a separate issue.
Granted this does happen a lot on all other sites when typing but being in a terminal much instantly triggered it.
the performance penalty for gui applications is fairly obvious (sluggish) but most of the things i'm running wouldn't work (containers etc.) or are actually faster (eg. rm -rf node_modules && npm install). being a couple of years old the battery is pretty much non-existant either way so i can't comment on that and i'm not using shared folders either (not using the host os at all).
* not because it's not possible, org policy.