I've been using my Dropbox space as a way to turn my systems into a thin(ner) client. I install portable (ini and not registry based) Windows apps into d:\Dropbox that I know can be run in Wine and run them in Wine on my Linux systems from ~/Dropbox
Best part of it is that UI changes done on one system remain consistent when using other machines. Completely took the pain out of a format/reinstall, too.
Trying to constrain Home to my Dropbox folder also reawakened an old skill: Space discipline. With drive space exploding and SSDs still being relatively constrained, I had forgotten how much crap I tended to hoard and not sort through until I was feeling pinched again thanks to my Dropbox quota.
This is also what I do, but almost the inverse: I use Cygwin on Windows to get all the same applications (I do everything other than browse the web in my terminal) as I would on Linux, then use Dropbox to keep everything the same across machines.
Each of my machines is configured (almost) exactly the same, and all the media/projects/work is available on all my computers at the same time.
I also experience the forced "space discipline" and would add that I also have to have a better organizational structure in general. I'm constantly "re-balancing the tree" that is my directory structure, re-defining and re-grouping my media into ever finer groups in an effort to stop things from accumulating in digital "junk drawers".
On a different note, I disagree with the suggestion of having a "virtual filesystem" that is the entire Dropbox service. I feel that doesn't fit with what Dropbox is: a folder that syncs. I don't want to have to worry about the physical location of my files, which I most definitely would have to do based on my internet speed (which is as good as it can get right now).
Best part of it is that UI changes done on one system remain consistent when using other machines. Completely took the pain out of a format/reinstall, too.
Trying to constrain Home to my Dropbox folder also reawakened an old skill: Space discipline. With drive space exploding and SSDs still being relatively constrained, I had forgotten how much crap I tended to hoard and not sort through until I was feeling pinched again thanks to my Dropbox quota.