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It looks like this is just an RDP-style solution which is disappointing, it would be really interesting if things still ran locally but everything - apps and da
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
It looks like this is just an RDP-style solution which is disappointing, it would be really interesting if things still ran locally but everything - apps and data - were synced in real time to the cloud, allowing you to login anywhere on any Windows PC and get all your stuff, without worrying about subsequent users of that hardware from seeing it once you logged out.
That would be pretty amazing, but it looks like it's just all running in the cloud.
- phamilton 5y agoVscode Remote strikes a very good balance IMO. The client running completely locally with a server running on the remote machine.
- stkdump 5y agoSo it is a client-server app? Aren't clients always running completely locally and the server always running remotely? Not trying to be smart, I would like to understand where the line is for vscode remote? What is running remotely (on the server) exactly?
- phamilton 5y agoYes, my statement does sound tautological. In vscode a full copy of the vscode backend runs on the remote machine. All running of tests, running the app, type checking and Intellisense, etc. all run on the remote machine. But the UI/client runs on my machine. The result is a very seamless native feeling experience, much more so than RDP or Citrix or any other display forwarding technology I've used. My claim is that client/server applications actually work very well and much better than a "streaming desktop experience".
- marwis 5y agoSounds like one could sort of make it with KVM+DRBD or perhaps zfs send/receive