all you guys naming 'physical' apps, that's some dangerous stuff.
hdd crash, notebook stolen in real life [under force?] and you lose EVERYTHING
my setup is quite unique. desktop pcs in the office, but personally i only have a notebook. this notebook's hdd is perpetually EMPTY, as everything goes from boot OS -> RDP into actual OS in 3 countries -> all data that needs to be persistent is saved to USB.
yeah, this means i can't exactly play video games. i also need to buy new usb storage every now and then because they do wear out from constant read/writes. but it's fkn amazing knowing your data and drives are so safe, even if someone grabbed my notebook from a restaurant table in real life, 30 minutes later they'd have a notebook with Empty harddrive while all my work is uninterrupted and intact [as it happens on dedicated servers in closeby nations via RDP]
i can't imagine having a computer with physical, hard-coded stuff being persistent on it all the time.