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For my work, I connect to the office PC via Citrix. Benefits: - My office PC is much more powerful than my laptop and I don't need to deal with its maintenance
by noisy_boy 5y ago
For my work, I connect to the office PC via Citrix. Benefits:
- My office PC is much more powerful than my laptop and I don't need to deal with its maintenance
- I can switch between work and office with couple of clicks
- No chances of accidental overlap as I don't see one while using the other (I run full screen); provides mental separation too
- I don't need to put Windows on my personal machine (I run Linux)
- No work stuff getting into personal machine or vice versa so I don't need to do workarounds such as the .gitconfig setup mentioned in the article
The only problem I have observed is that Citrix on Linux seems to have issues exposing the external webcam as an available device when I join a meeting from within the Citrix session (for which we use Citrix (!) WebEx no less!). Cheese on Linux can handle the webcam perfectly fine. When I absolutely must enable Video, I just connect to the meeting directly from my laptop (which is a rare requirement in my case). But this problem could be a show-stopper for those who use video regularly and connect from Linux (my colleagues who use Windows say it works fine for them).
- AdrianB1 5y agoI use a similar setup, except the meetings that I take on the local machine because the sound quality is much better and I avoid problems with the webcam.
- noisy_boy 5y agoThe main issue I've faced while connecting from local machine is when I want to share my office PC's screen. All sorts of issues with resolution (complicated further due to dual monitor), only being able to either share or see the participants but not both and so on. Unfortunate that Citrix don't bother to improve the experience with Linux clients but not entirely surprising either.