I've been using this in one form or another for a very long time. Starting when we had Windows desktops with bad Linux support, and back then you couldn't run b

I've been using this in one form or another for a very long time. Starting when we had Windows desktops with bad Linux support, and back then you couldn't run both OS's on the same machine at the same time. So I stuck a workstation with Linux on it in a closet. Fired up VNC and I could hit it from home, my cubicle, the road, wherever. It's evolved over the years as things became faster and more secure. It became a co-located server, then a VPS, and now it's a shared setup on a beefy server. It maintains it's state no matter where I go. I can open up two ore more sessions for two ore more monitors. But it's more useful to just surf the web or open PDF's or whatever on the local machine. Copy and paste is pretty seamless these days. And wherever it's located, has a much better network connection than I do. You still have a latency problem with large files (CD .iso in the old days, a 10GB package these days). I don't play games so I don't really know how that goes. But for development it works great, as well as just a general workstation.