I'm running linux desktops these days, but for ~15 years my linux development enviroment was windows+putty+exceed/xming. People would ask me why and for a long time I would close the lid on my laptop and reopen it, or point to my monitor layout.

A lot of that stuff works these days, but there have been plenty of times Ive had issues which burned a whole day fixing. In the latter cases, I've just been left wondering how people who can't fix their own kernel/X/systemd/whatever bugs manage.