Besides being safer, it is much faster since you are not being bottlenecked by firewalls and anti virus programs.I don't have my primary development machine (widows) networked either... MUCH safer.
andLinux?
Re: andLinux?
Best wishes to the PB community. Thank you for the memories. 
Re: andLinux?
This may be posted elsewhere, if so, I am sorry. "Normal" Linux updating is a hassle for me since I do not have an internet connection on my development machine. I stumbled on this site: http://appnr.com/
Although it allows one click installs, if you click on the name of the listing you want, it provides you with the option to download it, which makes it easy to download what you need, copy it to a flash drive and then install it on your non-internet machine. Since this is aimed at Ubuntu, it should work fine with andLinux.
Although it allows one click installs, if you click on the name of the listing you want, it provides you with the option to download it, which makes it easy to download what you need, copy it to a flash drive and then install it on your non-internet machine. Since this is aimed at Ubuntu, it should work fine with andLinux.
Best wishes to the PB community. Thank you for the memories.