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At work I asked for a remote server and my pc is just a terminal to use ssh & xwindows.
I also considered this, but I was not able to solve the security problems. That remote server must (or not?) hold all my SSH keys, AWS creds, and other stuff, to even be useful. Secops guys would kill me for this. Until then, WSL is good enough.
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I have something like that at work for testing Windows things, since my work machine is a Mac. It's pretty miserable in terms of latency and window management. If you can get this to work well with NX or X forwarding, that's cool, but it's a second class offering when that's your only option.
Hm, are you using native Windows RDP? That one has pretty low latency even in the default configuration (assuming a capable client).
My home internet connection pretty low latency (wired) and pretty high throughput (gigabit).
It's not absolute torture using the AVD, but it's definitely clunky.
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You can turn off effects to restore amazing performance (I know on the Mac version it’s the “optimize for retina displays” option).
I'm talking about effects on the server side. Launching edge for the first time is a major pain, for example.
I watched a colleague use VSCode earlier today and was kinda shocked at the amount of pop-ups, and also how they'd cover the active pane, including what the developer was typing.
My attention system isn't built for modern Microsoft apps, I think.
By the way, is WSL1, which doesn't use vhds and so doesn't suffer from such issues (but has slowed io), effectively abandoned by MS?
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Wish there was a good option in corporate environments where I can’t just install Linux.
Ask for a Mac ? At this point enough manager were sold on it that most places have to support MacOS, and its popular enough with devs to also have to support dev environments on it. Like even if you prefer Linux, Mac is a huge step up over windows and WSL if those were your only options. Also latest Mac machines aren't even that overpriced as they were before their in-house CPUs, for the performance you get really th…
Linux is Linux Windows offers Wsl1 and Wsl2 integration
The closest thing macOS has in any official capacity is their containers project, running each container in a VM for "security" at the expense of poor resource allocation and no compatibility with table stakes tooling like compose.