Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture?
rudd: Why do you want to keep the use of a work computer and a personal computer separate? I suppose I can understand wanting to keep personal data on your own computer, but people aren't going to be happy being forced to drag a laptop to and from work just to check personal stuff during the day. They won't see it as you being lenient about using personal stuff on the network, they'll see it as you being very strict about what touches your precious work computer.You should let people choose what sort of setup they want (within reason). Let them get a desktop if they just want to work in the office (which seems to be what you want anyway), and let them get a laptop if they prefer that. Linux, Mac, Windows, whatever. Let developers choose their own machine setup and they'll thank you for it. I can't even say how happy I was that I wasn't forced into a particular setup at my current job.