I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computers (2020)

Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by logifail on Monday April 04, 2022 @02:53PM (#30910599)

> I think a lot of people would be better off buying a fast workstation and a very cheap laptop[...]

This!

I'm currently in a hotel room using a cheap laptop (5-year old Lenovo 330) to connect remotely to my fast workstation (home-built Ryzen, lots of memory, lots of storage and LTO6 tape for backups). There's almost 1000mi between them but that's not stopping me doing anything I require. If someone steals the laptop, no big deal, buy another one. All I do is sign and and connect to remote stuff, pretty much nothing of value is stored locally.

"My home [PC] is my cloud", as Sir Edward Coke didn't quite say...

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by omitmyname on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:04PM (#30910724)

how do you connect to your pc? Through visual code plugin or something?

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by pimeys on Monday April 04, 2022 @06:18PM (#30912702)

Tailscale and SSH work great here. I have a ryzen desktop in the office and all ports open in the VPN network, so it is easy to use whatever remote software is needed.

I personally just use vim over ssh.

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Re:I Am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computer... by Moru on Monday April 04, 2022 @05:16PM (#30912030)

Not GP but there are a number of remote control software. I'm using Anydesk on windows between laptop and desktop. SSH everywhere else.

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