Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by WalterBright on Monday October 26, 2020 @06:29AM
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I cannot type unless I'm sitting in a chair at my desk. Trying to type on the sofa or in bed means my hands are at all the wrong angles and touch typing completely fails me. (I wrote this not looking at the keyboard at all.)
The couch is fine for reading a tablet.
For me the trick when moving back and forth between the office and home was to have an external drive with everything on it and carry it back and forth. A better approach is probably remote desktop or remote login.
I travel with a cheap laptop loaded with only what I anticipate needing on the trip. It eases my mind to not worry too much about having it stolen, lost, or smashed.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by klyrs on Sunday October 25, 2020 @08:48PM
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I've gotten used to the convenience of a laptop, but I'm never happy with them. Now that I'm working remotely, the lappy just doesn't cut it. But I want to veg on the couch with my laptop once and a while. My solution is to use my older laptop as a thin client for my desktop.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by balfirevic on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:05PM
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I tried that (using Windows Remote Desktop) but the latency was just high enough to be annoying. What do you use?
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by HungSu on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:53PM
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Not OP, but I use Parsec to do things remotely on my desktop from my laptop. Latency and frame rate are far, far better than VNC or RDP
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by klyrs on Sunday October 25, 2020 @10:23PM
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Well... tbh I'm still working on the build. But I don't do windows and I don't play FPS or anything where latency would be super important. I use VNC across town to my office and that's generally good enough... but we'll see. I had small hopes that "laptop as linux thin client" would have an easy PNP solution by now, but my research indicates that this still isn't the case. Definitely open to suggestions.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by Talanes on Monday October 26, 2020 @02:53AM
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It's been a bit since I had a second device to try it with, but my experienced with Windows Remote Desktop have been less of a "this would be hard to game with" lag and more a "the delay in my mouse movement is making my head hurt" lag.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by magicalhippo on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:58AM
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That is weird. For me the mouse cursor is always rendered locally, so feels as responsive as on the desktop itself.
Sure if I'm on a high latency link I might have to adjust to clicking taking a wee bit to register, but normally I don't have to adjust my usage.
Windows to Windows.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by dredmorbius on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:01AM
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Linux. SSH. Command line.
Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers
by WalterBright on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:52PM
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I tried WRD too, with the same result.
I used an external monitor, keyboard and mouse when at the desk, even when I only owned a laptop. But I also use the laptop a lot on the couch, not just for traveling - so I wondered if I would find it annoying to have a separate desktop machine.
So far it's been well worth it. The desktop performance is much better (especially for gaming) and Dropbox, git, Chrome sync and VS Code sync make having multiple machines relatively painless.
Edit: I see in previous comments you were looking for a full sized bluetooth keyboard. I recently got a Logitech G915 [0] and I'm pretty happy with it. Expensive though.
[0] - https://www.logitechg.com/en-eu/products/gaming-keyboards/g9...