I tried to use it with a remote server I had running on gcloud while being on a spotty train connection. In the end sadly it was working better to just share the screen via VNC accessing VScode on the server desktop directly. Fetching of files or even the directory was painfully slow.
But I have to say, that I was working on a very thin client (chromebook using crostini as well as crouton) and also my server may have been too weak to handle vscode + liveshare?
Nonetheless the result really suprised me.
Since then I stumble over coder.com which gives you vscode directly via your browser, which seems to work quit fast on my chromebook. Sadly they haven't support for docker yet, which is kind of my remote use case and KO criterium to be usefull for me, to be able to start my containers so I can work everywhere.
For now my go to remote solution is to just share my workstation via google remote desktop. I now get all the goodness from my chromebook (light, great battery, mobile) with the power of my workstation.
That feels very similar to the use case I'm hoping for. I, personally, run a MBP 13" with a pile of RAM, but I often pair with people who are running low-end hardware. I've taken to spinning up a massive VM for an hour or two to make everything way faster.
I had not heard of Google Remote Desktop before, how does it do on battery life? I've found VNC really chews through the battery for me.
I found Google Remote Desktop to be quit fine on battery life? I really use it as an thin client, even stream my music and everything from the work station. Often I forget I'm not working really on that machine.
But maybe there is some special brew inside ChromeOS, so that it works that fine. All in all not bad for an ~200-300€ machine...
I tried to use it with a remote server I had running on gcloud while being on a spotty train connection. In the end sadly it was working better to just share the screen via VNC accessing VScode on the server desktop directly. Fetching of files or even the directory was painfully slow.
But I have to say, that I was working on a very thin client (chromebook using crostini as well as crouton) and also my server may have been too weak to handle vscode + liveshare?
Nonetheless the result really suprised me.
Since then I stumble over coder.com which gives you vscode directly via your browser, which seems to work quit fast on my chromebook. Sadly they haven't support for docker yet, which is kind of my remote use case and KO criterium to be usefull for me, to be able to start my containers so I can work everywhere.
For now my go to remote solution is to just share my workstation via google remote desktop. I now get all the goodness from my chromebook (light, great battery, mobile) with the power of my workstation.
That feels very similar to the use case I'm hoping for. I, personally, run a MBP 13" with a pile of RAM, but I often pair with people who are running low-end hardware. I've taken to spinning up a massive VM for an hour or two to make everything way faster.
I had not heard of Google Remote Desktop before, how does it do on battery life? I've found VNC really chews through the battery for me.
I found Google Remote Desktop to be quit fine on battery life? I really use it as an thin client, even stream my music and everything from the work station. Often I forget I'm not working really on that machine.
But maybe there is some special brew inside ChromeOS, so that it works that fine. All in all not bad for an ~200-300€ machine...
I am very very tempted to try this! Thank you!