This machine is a joy to use. How well it's built makes me actually want to use the computer. I use it to mainly do yeetcode questions and other algorithm questions online. For this purpose, it's amazing and encourages me to study more. I have VSCode and node installed on the linux VM, but I don't really use it much for real development. For one, it doesn't feel fast when coding on it, probably because of the ECC memory and DDR3 RAM. Don't be fooled by the i5 and i7 processors, they're not enough to make this computer feel fast when doing development work.