I second this. I did this while I was at University and it helped not only ease up my backpack (went from carrying a big gaming computer on my back to a 2 pound chromebook) but it also allowed me to work almost anywhere anytime cause of the battery life and the fact that essentially the entire campus was connected.

Couple this with some x-forwarding for GUIs and you got basically the same high end computer anywhere you go.

Highly recommend giving it a go.

wow it's so awesome you started doing this in College. I wish someone would have taught me this back then, could have saved a few thousand dollars and headache from picking and buying laptops.

Do the same. Android tab + BT keyboard + SSH. I've coded in coffee shops, airport terminals, you name it.

You may be able to host your development environment cheaper. Hetzner works out to be almost the same price as electricity of keeping my desktop up all the time for me.

1) I may sound like a total n00b, but don't you find it hard to code only from a command line environment? I mean, you can't use IDEs with SSH, right?

2) I'm going to be that guy that chimes in and says you have to be careful with code you write on company's time / using company equipment. So, be careful with that.

So you actually can but it can be a pain tbh...

Here is a link describing it

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12755/how-to-forwar...

Of course with latency and all that sending x windows can slow it down a bit (and there was some weird stuff with me and my Chromebook with it, but I got it work in the end)

But! It definitely is possible, and once it's set up and everything it can become really helpful/useful

Not too sure security wise how it fairs but I figured if it's just for homework and on campus it should be fine for the most part, and ssh is secure (hence the name :D ) so it should be fine

1) I'm mostly using vim. Been using it for development for the past 6 years and loving it.

2) Thanks! Duly noted.

emacs works great in tmux session and i consider it as a very powerful IDE.

How did you get your company to agree to this? I feel like most companies would immediately shut this down since you're storing company secrets on a non-approved computer.

I don't do company work on my desktop. Instead, I use company computer to ssh into a company cloud to do my coding (All of the company I've worked at either has their own cloud instance or aws/googlecloud/azure flavor). Again, same benefits, I can code on any of my coworker's computer. lol.

Sometimes I ssh into my personal desktop to do personal work from my company computer.

Your company has no say regarding "ssh into my desktop at home".

Until the latency spikes, heh.

it happens, but its rare. I've been doing this for a year and no way I'm going back.

What environment/language do you primarily code in?

nodejs + python. Vim as a text editor for everything, including mobile dev with react-native. Expo for React-Native is godsend.