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by mahmoudimus 3976 days ago
The latest round of articles encouraging streaming from the cloud to your local client focusing on latency sensitivity is very interesting because it might finally make things like high-performance, low-latency remote virtual desktop for development solutions approachable.

Chrome Remote Desktop works OK and it's a sign of things to come in the field of virtual desktops. Right now, the state of the art for on-demand cloud remote development desktops to help facilitate intensive development environments, like IntelliJ / Visual Studio / Mathematica, on underpowered clients, (i.e.12" MacBook), is to rely on proprietary protocols that barely work if the targeted remote machine is a Linux desktop.

Yes, I know about x2go etc, but I've had so-so experiences with it. Compared to streaming games, I wonder if there's a product in here somewhere.