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I have been using a remote workflow for more than three years. I don't use remote desktop. I just SSH into the machine and use tmux sessions for terminal stuff

I have been using a remote workflow for more than three years. I don't use remote desktop. I just SSH into the machine and use tmux sessions for terminal stuff and the vscode remote package for editing. To help the workflow I have some nice aliases for easily opening projects, forwarding ports, sleeping/waking the server etc. I'm aware that this workflow cannot work for everyone - for instance it won't work for developing desktop apps, but for web and app development it's really nice to have a powerful machine doing all the hard work. I think many would be surprised by how much faster desktop hardware is. Especially when you put price into the equation.

rektide 3y ago
A decade ago I was complaining about only having so many GB of memory on my machine while developing our Java terror tech stack. An ops type person overheard & mentioned we had some mostly unused beefy as heck remote desktop machines running NoMachine, which was a nice slick fast proxying X vdi thing I already loved. I was so happy. It really let me work anywhere. At crazy speeds. Loved it. These days I definitely am almost all ssh based. Back then though I basically needed Eclipse(+eclim).