Home directory on NFS == hell on earth
At work, I had a machine where my home directory was on NFS. I was not a user on my own machine, just on the network. Imagine what happened when the electrician unplugged the network by mistake. No work was done, that's for sure. I could not even work offline, because I did not exist on my own machine. Another problem was permissions to access certain hardware, e.g. USB audio. Forget adding myself to the whatever group, because I dd not exist as a user. I had to fiddle with udev rules. It should be obvious from this that I could run my machine locally as root, but I have always thought that is very bad form, and lazy.
It worries me a bit that cloudy stuff is very popular at work. It seems to be OK, but I get the impression that production would grind to a halt if there were a major network outage, and HR could not pay wages. I don't mind if gaffers at work see this comment. I will put my views forward when I get the opportunity.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
