How many of those machines that are secured in the workspace are actually left there? In my experience, most of us are using laptops now and are expected to take the machines home for on-call duty.

I don't know if FF has them now, but once I learned how to use profiles on Chrome, I could not go back to firefox. Profiles for home, for work, for prod/dev/beta development environments at the same time. Multiple AWS accounts open at the same time. Profiles are a needed feature for me.

I also use teams, but it is slower on linux, and I don't care for the UI. I prefer slack.

And don't email anyone or accept email from anyone either cause it probably goes over a google server somewhere on the way....

If your company has it, just use their web interface to the mail. If not, then it can wait until I'm in the office.

I used public transport to go into the city to work for several years. My commute took an hour and a half each way. If I rode my motorcycle, it was 45 minutes each way. I did the catch up on email and do offline work as well, train time was as productive time compared to the in office time.

I would rather have the extra hour and a half a day to do what I want rather than do what I can manage to do trapped inside an unstable platform of a train with the masses.

I was VERY happy to abandon that waste of time and ride my motorcycle to a closer location when the company left down town. I have no reason to go to the city center, and no desire to do so.

I am very happy living in the suburbs and commuting in warm weather via two of my own wheels and in bad via 4 of my own wheels. I've lived internationally and used public transport and don't miss it at all.

Since I have both a motorcycle license and room to store cars and motorcycles, I expect I am in a minority of readers.

There is an outdated opensuse, and no fedora at all. How about a few distros?

You've got some points. Of that 50 minute bus commute, 25 minutes is spent walking to and from the bus stop. Taking a walk is great! But I'd rather do it with my family and dogs than with a backpack full of work gear. Let alone early in the morning snow in the winter. I'm one of the people who enjoys driving, or riding my motorcycles. It IS a way for me to get away. This place isn't over crowded and the commute is 15-20 minutes via self transport. The buses are not nice spaces where you go to relax or meditate. They are discomfort on wheels. You are correct that I could read a book for the 25 minutes each way. But I would rather do that in a nice place without the bouncing and bustle. Since I have an extra hour in my day because I didn't spend it on the commute; I can do whatever I want or need in a nice place for that hour. But since the bus only runs twice a day and it isn't even I need it, there's no way to find out. There aren't enough people to fill the buses enough to make them viable. They would be running empty burning more diesel and consuming more resources than they can ever save.

Transit Utah is surprisingly good for mountain state.

I used it to commute for several years. The problem was the increased time spent in the commute.

Using the trains my commute was 1.5 hours from my door to my office. On motorcycle it is 45 minutes. In a car it was someplace in between. They offered wifi on the train, but the quality was too poor to do anything beyond a git push, email or basic browsing. Forget using a VPN. To make the train time useful I had to save work for the train. If I didn't have that kind of work to do, then the extra hour and half was coming out of my personal time. (my quality of life)

Now I work closer to home. Self transport is 15-20 minutes now. Mass transit is 50 minutes but only runs twice a day. But even if it was every ten minutes, I wouldn't do it because I want to be productive.

Self transport (Automobile/Motorcycle) equates to freedom in the US; go where you want when you want.

Mass transport puts you on someone else's schedule instead of your own.

Mass transit can't seem to function in the US because there is just too much space to cover. For densely populated areas there is enough mass to make it work. Without the population density, it cannot make enough money to pay it's own bills, so it naturally fails unless it is propped up by a government.

I don't see any connection between these two posts smashed into one story....

For those of us who don't want a tablet UI on the desktop, this distro includes support for MATE as well.