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No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
by 1a527dd5 1y ago
No, but I am remoted in to my dev box (over RDP/mstsc).
- neurostimulant 1y agoMaybe try gaming-oriented remote desktop tools, like steam link or sunshine/moonlight. Those work great with directx, assuming you have a working gpu (at least integrated gpu) on your remote box. They also have way better latency, though use a lot more bandwidth.
- KetoManx64 1y agoHow am I supposed to ask for permission from IT to install Steam or gaming related tools like Moonshine just to use a code editor?
- pezgrande 1y agoBy explaining the advantages over "older" methods. A lot of people use Moonlight/Sunshine for non gaming related stuff, specially considering than the alternatives are all proprietary.
- heavyset_go 1y agoThey're productivity tools, not gaming software. You'll be faster and deal with less errors using the correct optimized remote desktop tool for your job, versus what you're using now, which can be slow and error prone.
- rafram 1y ago> Moonlight > Open source game streaming client > Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device OK, fine, maybe Sunshine will be different. > Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Maybe not.
- heavyset_go 1y agoMy post was answering the question of how they should ask for permission to use it. You pitch it as productivity software that helps you do your job better.
- MrDrMcCoy 1y agoSunshine and Moonlight are no more than accelerated and finely tuned VNC servers that happen to be targeted at gaming. You can totally set them up as a regular remote desktop solution.
- rafram 1y agoRight, but I'm saying their sites make it very clear that they're meant for gaming, so GGP may indeed have a hard time convincing corporate IT that they're for work.
- xmcp123 1y agoEvery part of this sentence made me so sad. Your company trusts you to write code but not run code?
- adastra22 1y agoIt is for protection against rootkits, not to be nanny to the employees.
- TiredOfLife 1y agoIt's a free Parsec alternative.
- Maxatar 1y agoIf you're using it via RDP then you won't notice any rendering performance issues since RDP itself has terrible rendering performance.
- StrangeWill 1y agoI've literally programmed with VSCode for basically a decade this way without issues. Zed lags, it's disappointing and if I really like Zed I'll have to sort out another setup. MSTSC is one of the rock-solid tools from Microsoft, and does better than almost everything else available on the market other than some PC over IP technologies specifically highly optimized for this use case. I've been programming with an ancient ThinkPad forever because I'm just remoting into a much more powerful machine.
- kakuri 1y agoIf you are having problems with Windows RDP then the problem is somewhere else along the pipeline, not RDP itself. No other remote solution I've used is even in the same ballpark as RDP in terms of responsiveness and quality. RDP on a LAN is very usable for actual coding work.
- TiredOfLife 1y agoIf no monitor is connected then RDP doesn't load gpu drivers. It can also make RDP performance much worse as HW accelerated video encoding is not working
- magicalhippo 1y agoI've played modern DirectX games over RDP, and they most definitely used the local GPU for rendering. Wonder why it doesn't find the GPU?
- WD-42 1y agoZed supports remote editing if that helps.