Who are you, and what do you do?
My name is Jessie Frazelle - some people call me "Jess", but I pretty much answer to anything except "Jessica". I'm a software engineer at Google. Most notably you might know me from being a maintainer of Docker and "running everything in containers". I am also a contributor to a lot of other open source projects such as runC and golang. I'm currently working on making containers more secure. I absolutely love all things Linux.
What hardware do you use?
Let's see... I have quite a few setups, so I'll go over each of them.
486DX Insight box with a CRT monitor. It runs MS-DOS 6. Yes, it has a turbo button. The keyboard is not a IBM Model M, but very similar and made by Insight as well. The CRT is an amber monochrome monitor. This computer has a story behind it - my grandpa worked for Motorola on the first computers, then opened his own consulting practice. He wrote Motorola's variation of COBOL, which I interpret as equivalent to a "fork" today. I actually found an old newspaper ad for his department - hence, the computer from Insight (another Arizona-based computer company). It's a custom-built machine. Thankfully when I popped it open he had labeled everything. I have a bunch of 5" and 3" floppies for it - Some games (Flight Simulator & Kid Pix) but mostly code he wrote himself, which I thoroughly enjoy digging into. He also gave me a crazy amount of programming books.
Dell XPS 13 running Debian Sid. 9343/9350 model. This is my baby. I absolutely love it. It works perfectly for "Linux on the desktop". I have had both the 8GB and 16GB models and both are awesome.
Dell Chromebook running stock Chrome OS. It has 8GB RAM. I absolutely LOVE Chrome OS. It works perfectly and is awesome for traveling. You can give talks with Google slides or whatever your flavor, and not have to worry about
xrandr(which I never worry about because I'm a pro - kidding :D). But it's amazing. People told me about it for a while and I didn't believe them, because I love my containers, but let me shout it to the world now: Chrome OS is AWESOME.
I also have the SONOS surround sound speakers, and I'm waiting for Matthew Garrett to come over and hack my sound system.
I use Yubikeys for basically all 2FA, SSH, and GPG.
And what software?
Globally: I use vim (specifically neovim), and my configuration is here. This also works for plain old vim as well.
Dell XPS 13: I use i3 as my window manager and have converted SO many people to do the same. My setup is quite specific - I run literally everything in containers. I've given a few talks on it and written a few blog posts. You can find my install script in my dotfiles, plus all the aliases for running everything in containers.
Chromebook: I do not use crouton. All I use if I need a terminal is the SSH extension to tunnel into a remote box.
What would be your dream setup?
A mainframe. Something so powerful I could just laugh mwahhahahahaha and stroke a white cat.