[mort96]

Completely depends on what you're doing. If you're working on GUI software for example, you need to run that on your local machine. This is much easier if you're compiling and running the software on the same machine.

Then there are non-development tasks, like 3D modelling or video editing.

Remote desktop is a kind of solution, but it's extremely sub par. Latency is not good unless you're on the same LAN in my experience.

[entropicdrifter]

Ever try Parsec or Moonlight/Sunshine? They're very low latency because they're made for gaming

[selectodude]

There’s a latency cost to encode and decode, and there’s a definite PQ change going from uncompressed video to h.265.

[entropicdrifter]

There's always some latency, but Moonlight has ~5ms latency on my LAN. I average 18ms total latency when I stream to my phone over 5G cell internet, that's with 6ms of decode latency in the phone's (fairly slow) hardware decoder and about 2.5ms encode latency in my AMD RX 6700XT's h.265 encoder.