[tbrock]

If you don’t absolutely need a local VM I’ve found it much nicer to have a beefy ec2 instance be the Linux vm that you connect to in order to work in Linux on x86.

Recently I’ve been doing this with VSCode which has a remote dev mode that works amazingly well. Before that I was just using ssh and tmux/screen which, as we know, also works and has worked for decades.

[aidos]

In our basic testing on M1 performance this week we’ve found that an arm vm on the M1 runs about 2x as fast as a c6g.2xlarge graviton2 instance. So you’re probably looking at about $0.50 / hr to compete with the Mac.

[fallenhitokiri]

I am curious what you find „much nicer“ using an EC2 instance than a local VM.

When running remote VMs I usually run them on my ESXi box in the basement and VPN back home when traveling. This is especially nice when a project needs more resources than whatever device I’m working on has to offer. But beside this very specific use case I haven’t personally found any advantage of this setup.