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Remote development environments
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2018–2024), in 10 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Remote editing latency makes the editor laggyUnreviewed
20182026- Remote X sessions are terribly slow to interact with2023-09-07
- Stepping through code remotely takes seconds to a minute per step due to latency2022-06-08
- Remote editing adds latency, making the editor laggy to interact with2021-11-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 10 complaints
- Keyboard input forwarding to a VM causes problems and unintended key mapping mistakes2024-08-19
- Tasks that work instantly locally become impossible on remote machines, causing frustration2023-12-30
- Every keystroke and menu action waits on a round trip to the remote side2023-12-28
- Remote X sessions are terribly slow to interact with2023-09-07
- Stepping through code remotely takes seconds to a minute per step due to latency2022-06-08
- Remote editing adds latency, making the editor laggy to interact with2021-11-29
- Setting up remote display tools on Linux is a horrible pain2021-10-27
- Graphical IDEs and matplotlib plotting don't work well remotely, forcing slow VNC use2021-02-16
- Good remote desktop solutions for Linux cloud desktops are lacking, a constant pain point2020-03-19
- Editing on a remote server stalls waiting for saves and page loads on slower connections2018-02-17