[israrkhan]

My solution is not to connect a monitor to my dev-machine and use ssh/tmux to do most things. It also makes work-from-home easy, as I can loginto my devbox from anywhere. But then it depends on what type of work you are doing, and how you are testing it.

[tqkxzugoaupvwqr]

Do you use an IDE on the client (the machine you connect from) and only have sources on the dev machine, or do you work completely in the terminal?

[wyager]

Many people I know just use text editors, no IDEs at all. Modern text editors, whether text-only (vim, emacs) or graphical (Atom, sublime) have plugins to replicate whatever IDE functionality you want anyway.

[teddyh]

What? Emacs is graphical!

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

[terminado]

Try typing the following into a terminal window, at the prompt:

  emacs

[bitexploder]

-nw helps :)

[tqkxzugoaupvwqr]

I should have worded my question better. I wanted to know whether he works directly on the dev server over a terminal or only connects to it and uses programs (IDEs, text editors) on the client machine to work on the code.

[israrkhan]

I usually work on a fairly large project (think of building a complete OS for embedded devices). IDE cannot handle that. My editor of choice is vim, combined with ctags, and some custom plugins. Sometimes when starting a new project from scratch, or writing a new tool, I use sublime (or vscode). I have smb server running on my dev-machine, and can use sublime on client machine.

[hossbeast]

Do you use a browser (and presumably a mouse) for email, or are you doing that in the console with mutt or pine?

[israrkhan]

I normally do not use email on my dev machine (use client machine for that). However occasionally I need to run a browser, or GUI app on devbox. I do it via X11. If I am on Windows, I use MobaXterm, which has builtin X11 server. From my macbook, i need to run a seperate x server.