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Remote access is the big one. It’s 2021 and ssh somehow still remains by far the most robust protocol for remote interaction. X forwarding is awful, and VNC and
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
Remote access is the big one. It’s 2021 and ssh somehow still remains by far the most robust protocol for remote interaction. X forwarding is awful, and VNC and its ilk require forwarding an entire desktop, which is inconvenient if you’re just interested in working in a single application, or having your client machine do its own window management.
I agree, it’s an ironic state of affairs that in the era of cloud computing and thin clients (everything old is new again!) TUI graphics might be one of the best way of actually working remotely on those cloud VMs.
- jcelerier 5y agoWhy do this when you can just sshfs the source folder and configure your IDE to run its build commands through SSH?
- chrisseaton 5y agoI've been trying this for IntelliJ to be able to develop Java on a remote instance and it's intractably slow. Haven't figured out where the problem is yet - I guess maybe IntelliJ does some things that expect performance that the remote file system isn't able to provide.