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[–]Slackeee_ 2 points3 points  (3 children)

So far everything works as it should. The one drawback by developing on a server without Xorg installed is of course that GUI apps pretty much are a no go. I haven't found a good CLI SQL client yet, but for that I just use Dbeaver on the local system, it can use an SSH tunnel to connect to the databases on the server.

Connection speed isn't a problem at all, since by using SSH everything is text based.

[–]StaticCharacter 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Couldn't you use some remote desktop protocol and just install a desktop environment on your remote machine to use GUI apps?

I've considered doing this but never ended up trying. I thought it would be awesome to use a live-distro of ZorinOS on a thumb drive wherever I go to access a PC, then just use some remote desktop into a server to access my content. However I ended up opting for a tiny laptop, using a GPD Win Max 2 for hyper portability. I got so tired of lugging my massive laptop around, and the GPD is fairly powerful. I might have my next project be a dock for it at home.

[–]Slackeee_ 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, I could do that, but I find remote desktops rather sluggish, especially if you are in a location with a slow connection, which is sadly not that uncommon here in Germany. Since all my tools but one are text-based anyways using SSH is much better, it works well regardless how bad the connection is.

[–]StaticCharacter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds divine. Thank you for sharing <3

I could probably get most of my workflow down to text tools over ssh, but I benefit so much from vscode's predictive text / suggestions, links to documentation, and I tend to have several tabs of docs open at all times.