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How do you access your remote development machine? Is it a graphic connection / can you use an IDE?

I love the idea of a powerful remote development machine but I’ve yet to find a tolerable RDP/VNC-type connection, and that leaves either something browser-based (VS Code maybe?) or something like JetBrains’ remote development tools which aren’t quite there yet.

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I use regular terminal SSH+VS Code remote machine feature. It pretty much feels like i am using VS Code with code on my local machine, except it is on the cloudtop. That covers heavy majority of use cases I care about, so I have zero need for graphical access or RDP. But in an ultra rare case I need it (happens only about once per year at most), I can just RDP using chrome remote desktop, and it works pretty well.

A VSCode-esque web IDE for editing code running in my browser on my laptop. ssh for terminal. Works great.

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