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This is one solution. Sometimes I use Sublime Text 3 on my old 2GB MB Air, to code mostly 3D graphics, sometimes backends, some web dev as well. However, on my
by ratww 5y ago
This is one solution. Sometimes I use Sublime Text 3 on my old 2GB MB Air, to code mostly 3D graphics, sometimes backends, some web dev as well.
However, on my beefy i9 work laptop I need to use Microsoft Teams and also Docker, which means the fan is on half the time and the computer can barely keep up with the workload.
I've seriously considering asking for another computer just to run Teams.
- Nextgrid 5y agoWhen I had a contract which required me to use Teams I was exploring installing it on a server and just using VNC to access it. The solution I've settled on however is to just reject contracts where terrible software is mandatory unless there's a significant financial upside.
- ulzeraj 5y agoI do have a Windows 10 PC for crapware which I connect using RDP. RDP on gigabit LAN is fast enough to watch a video with acceptable results. It can also pipe webcam and microphone to the remote host. For Linux hosts NoMachine is really fast and can make use of stuff like x265 streaming. The open source x2go although slower can publish applications terminal services style in a way that the remote app window looks like its running on the local machine.
- accountofme 5y agoWoah NoMachine is still around?! I used to use that to login to home from uni in 2003 (well it was freenx but same diff)
- FpUser 5y agoMy main tool to login to my Linux workstations. Works like a charm.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoHuh, is x2go faster than standard x11 forwarding? I played around with forwarding from Linux VMs to my host Mac via XQuartz, and even running on the same machine it was much too slow for e.g. web browsing.
- ulzeraj 5y agoI'd say it can be made faster because you can control the streaming quality and compression algorithms.
- distances 5y agoFor what it's worth, Teams was a pain on MacBook but it's running fine now that I can work with a desktop (32GB, Ryzen 3700X). I completely agree on Teams being by far the worst software I have to use though.
- distances 5y agoIn my project most PMs have the mid-tier Macs (not sure what they are called). They can't use Teams video conferencing and Jira at the same time. Some have resorted to running Teams on a tablet next to the laptop, which works well unless you need to share the screen. It's a pretty ridiculous situation.
- ratww 5y agoYep, I see the same problems. Since our PMs never needed beefy machines before (they don't do software development and Teams is new for us), I'm the one who ends up being the JIRA pilot :) The fun part is that I could be using my personal stone-age 2GB/i3 MB Air if I were doing only development and e-mail.
- thrower123 5y agoTeams is really just awful. Lync/Skype for Business generally ran with 10% of the memory usage that Teams uses, and it wasn't a particularly well-written native WPF app.
- manigandham 5y agoUse an iPad. Teams app is smooth there. And you’ll have a better camera.
- ratww 5y agoThat's actually a great idea. I used to use an iPad for email, calendar and Jira. Maybe I should go back to it!