Company laptop

My new job has supplied me with a company laptop. They would prefer that I do my work on it, with OSX as the primary OS and other OSes as virtual machines. For a normal 9-5 job, that wouldn't be a big deal. However, my job involves working remotely, traveling, working on-call, etc. This means that if I maintain a personal laptop and a work laptop, I'll have to keep both of them with me rather often, and that's not particularly compatible with my transit / bike lifestyle, among many other reasons I wouldn't want to maintain software / documents / accounts / etc on two separate machines (on top of the desktop and phone I already have).

Most of my coworkers have abandoned their private laptops and just use their work laptop for everything. The alternative for me is to use my private laptop for almost everything, and keep my work laptop sitting on my desk at work for the few times it matters. I'm going to list here all the reasons I can think of for each decision, and spend a little while thinking about it. I'd welcome any feedback.

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