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by 5d749d7da7d5 2098 days ago
Remote has been a game changer for my development as well. Work forces me on a Windows machine with the full suite of corporate spyware. Said spyware loses its mind when compiling, debugging, language server inspection, git actions on large repo, etc. Performance loss is somewhere in the region 2-10x.

With remote, I am able to do all coding on a non-infested Linux server with almost seamless usability.

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Your company is equally cool with you just having all of your code/IP on a unsecured (i.e. not running crazy large antimalware, not actually insecure) Linux box?
sounds like my company: any windows machine is infested with a dozen or so McAffee things that make it unworkably slow. But none of the drones that role out McAffee has ever touched linux or osx, they prefer to leave that alone. So even though I actually prefer windows as a desktop OS, I mostly worked on a MacBook (until the pandemic, now I WFH on a my personal windows machine). But since WSL2 is finally backported to whichever outdated windows my corporate laptop runs, it is actually quite usable with VSCOde/remote containers + docker