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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by outworlder on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:09PM (#33114746)
> Also, you should completely avoid having Remote Desktop and instead use ssh + an editor that works with remote files.

That's kinda stretching the definition of a 'desktop', isn't it? The sort of tasks someone uses Remote Desktop for seldom overlaps with what someone uses SSH for. Also it doesn't seem to be the point of the article:

Article: > I'm also going to restrict this discussion to the case of "We run a full graphical environment on the VM, and stream that to the laptop"

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by aleksiy123 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:05PM (#33115812)
Yes, somehow I missed this. My mistake.

Though I think it could still work if the applications are built with this in mind. Think Google Docs, Sheets etc as cloud replacements for local Word, Excel.

SSH and Video aren't the only two protocols to interact with a remote machine.

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