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Making a cloud workstation
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Making a cloud workstation

denellumdenellum Member, Host Rep

Hello everyone,
Currently I have a 3 core 4.5 gb ram with ~80gb ssd KVM
I am looking to not have my home PC on all the time, and use this instead.

Current applications I run :
Web Browser
PhpStorm
RamBox
NoMachine (thanks fellow LET'ers)

I was using ZorinOS, but ran into some issues with graphics drivers (i think), it would crash anytime i loaded up the system settings.

So, now that that's all out of the way, what workstation environment would you recommend I try out that will suit my needs?

~v/r
denellum

Comments

  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    @dustinc I have a 3c 3GB RAM 50 GB NVMe for like 30 bucks a year including 24 % tax he might help you

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  • denellumdenellum Member, Host Rep

    @skorupion said:
    @dustinc I have a 3c 3GB RAM 50 GB NVMe for like 30 bucks a year including 24 % tax he might help you

    well i have the server already and its from Racknerd :)
    I am just having an issue with finding a distro that is a workstation distro that works, heres the issues with the latest one :

    https://i.imgur.com/lpIZJbf.gif

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  • SplitIceSplitIce Member, Host Rep

    That looks like latency and in general the issues with transfering realtime video over (even a) moderate latency link. That's not the distros fault.

  • ericlsericls Member, Patron Provider

    This would difinately work.

    My macbook air does not allow me to run webpack builds smoothly, so I use a home virtual server to setup the dev environment and the experience is unexpectedly smooth. And I've moved all my projects to this kind of setup, one project one virtual machine, no more local context switching, no more disrupted workflow. I either use vscode with ssh remote or just neovim on the remote machine.

    However, I don't think it's a good idea to forward graphics... If you can find a way to utilize remote processing power but still render things locally, do it, especially for text/code editing.

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  • ericlsericls Member, Patron Provider

    If you use linux locally, you can forward X applications too!

  • denellumdenellum Member, Host Rep

    Ended up being the display driver used solusvm. The host swapped it out and got me hooked up!

    the resolution:
    Our VM's are running in default KVM Video Driver and it works with most of the distibutions. Seems the ISO's you mentioned here requires additional drivers. So I enabled the VGA driver for your VM and disabled the 2D and 3D accelerating and the VM is displaying the system settings now.

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