Developing software through Remote Desktop should be fucking illegal.

Would you like some latency with your latency?

How else can I develop without a space heater???

Oh yeah it's God awful

I recently asked my boss to get an ide with remote capabilities onto my laptop because of this

Click 'P' -> 5 ms lag -> 'P' show on screen.
Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
Click 'A' -> 5 ms lag -> 'A' show on screen.
Click 'S' -> 5 ms lag -> 'S' show on screen.
Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
Click 'K' -> 5 ms lag -> 'K' show on screen.
Click 'I' -> 5 ms lag -> 'I' show on screen.
Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
Click 'L' -> 5 ms lag -> 'L' show on screen.
Click 'M' -> 5 ms lag -> 'M' show on screen.
Click 'E' -> 5 ms lag -> 'E' show on screen.
Click '!' -> 5 ms lag -> '!' show on screen.

@devdiddydog 5ms is pretty good actually

It gets worse when the remote desktop is a windows machine.
KMN

Is there a way to check your latency?
for me its fast. guess 1ms latency ~

I like the part where at the end of the day you simply press the X and BOOM no more work :)

keeps work and private separated

@devdiddydog I'm sure I will first see plwasekilme if I type it before spending another few seconds to correct

Because of how our system works I sometimes have to develop remotely (if I am at a different branch away from my standalone) but the latency is normally 1-2ms because of a direct fiber link between branches.

Almost not noticable at all

@0x0000FFFF Pretty sure your latency is not 1ms.
https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-...
This is a nice article about editor latency from a jetbrains developer and basis for their effort on zero-latency typing (included as default since 2017.1 IDEs)

Edit: this is for typing latency. Having a Virtual Desktop will add some latency additionally, and I would guess that it adds more latency than just the network connection itself

I'm having that with a ~25ms ping and it's not that bad, at least as long the connection stays fast enough. It has some advantages:
- no need for beefy work laptops
- no company data outside the office
- no need for Windows at home
- access to company data / VCS at Gbit+ speeds
- OS / application tasks (updates) are not my business
- Terminal can stay "always on", just connect and continue working
± work from anywhere (any machine) as long as you got your VPN certificate, password and 2FA

However if your connection is shit, well, then it's shit.

Even more fun if you have to work by RPD on Terminalserver and THEN RDP on your dev machine!

lol yeah, there was this gamedev company i worked for on a unity skiing game,the preferred to have me work via remote desktop instead of giving me remote access to the repo.

a skiing game.

@Midnight-shcode oh sorry i forgot to mention another important bit: i was doing vfx and menu animations programming at the time and was also tasked with improving all the ui performance.

yes, via remote desktop