4.) I typically just spawn a few xterms (edit, build/debug (typically using screen), and i/o). 3.) No, performance has been fine using X11 apps that were built

4.) I typically just spawn a few xterms (edit, build/debug (typically using screen), and i/o). 3.) No, performance has been fine using X11 apps that were built with X11 in mind (vs Wayland or some sort of locally accelerated GPU helper(do you really need 25% transparent dialog boxes?)) 2.) There is remote machine I own/control (it has all the things I need) and going into a system that someone else has asked me to develop on (then ANSI terminal tools over SSL are always working) 1.) VNC has always been hit or miss for me, I do typically use screen(1) to keep sessions alive if for some reason the network dies in the middle. But all fine points.