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> Software-wise, a fully remote environment helps avoid dual-boot madness and incompatible-drivers fighting: my dev environment sits on an Ubuntu server, making
by tentacleuno 5y ago
> Software-wise, a fully remote environment helps avoid dual-boot madness and incompatible-drivers fighting: my dev environment sits on an Ubuntu server, making tooling dramatically easier.
This setup honestly sounds envigorating; I'm currently in a predicament where my course requires the use of Windows-only software, so I've got a dual-boot on the laptop. Whenever I forget to shut down Windows properly and boot into Linux, I find out the NTFS drive is read-only to prevent corruption. This means booting back into Windows, finishing up any work I might have on there, restarting to Linux, and getting personal development work done.
The author hasn't specifically mentioned any Windows-specific setups here, but I'm sure it's possible with QEMU, a VPN, and some other tricks.
- pletnes 5y agoIf you treat a local VM as a remote server, this can also work well, without relying on working in a «remote desktop» style. This tends to cause UI lag which is more annoying than sending the run unit test» command to the remote server which anyway will take a few seconds to run.