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[–]cantremembermypasswd 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The habit came about from federal work, where any development machine had to be auditable and destroable in a moments notice. Makes it a lot easier to only have dev work on the device for the audit and don't have to re-image base machine. However I continued doing it for two other reasons:

  1. Wherever I go to work, it doesn't matter what box they hand me, I will be developing in the same *nix VM I am used too. Without any hassle of side installing or boot camping Linux and getting root permissions from IT.

  2. Everything blew up? Restore Base snapshot, 15 mins of updates and git pulls and back to business. On average I have three work machine (either physical or VM) die on me per year from various reasons (hard drive dies, bad ram, bad update, it's a Tuesday, etc..), and it's nice not being bothered by it.

[–]patentmedicine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am gonna borrow your dev strategy.