Not really what you are asking for, but I've been working on a low powered Windows machine with just Putty-ing (SSH-ing) to my Linux desktop for quite some time now.

I pipe what Xorg stuff I need through SSH and otherwise I just work in tmux + vim.

So far only pain point has been downloading stuff via browser on Windows since I don't have sshfs or any other real-time file transfer setup between the machines, but that happens rarely enough that I've just put up with psftp