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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by danans on Thursday October 06, 2022 @01:09PM (#33110978)
> you run/test in a terminal

Some of the software has a GUI, and some of the tools (i.e. unit test runners) display their output in a locally (to the remote desktop) running web app viewed via a browser.

If I were doing strictly text-based work, I might use tmux, but to be honest i3 scales down so well to the text-only use case that I probably wouldn't bother, since there is no upside to doing so.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by aleksiy123 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:55PM (#33113214)
For tools with webapp output. You can use a proxy to access it in your local browser.

Something like ngrok would work well.

The advantage of having tools with APIs

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by danans on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:52PM (#33114574)
Sure, but it's a lot easier just to open a browser in the remote desktop session. It's not like the FPS of the browser matters much when looking at unit test results.
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