In my opinion, developing is not a really good use case. Some of our team develops using VSCode + SSH against a remote VM.
One of the best use cases we've found is education and, specifically, trade schools. There are some trade school courses that require really specific software (image and sound, designing electronics, interacting with proprietary robots, etc.), and it's a painful experience to manage all of that, add new programs, etc. (some trade schools have 60+ courses, each one having different subjects and different software through the year!) By having cloud desktops, the teacher can create a template with their requirements and share that template with the students, and if the requirements change, it's as simple as modifying the template and sharing it again.
Also, most of the public schools here are underfunded, so they end up with really old machines, and the cost of renewing a whole classroom gets really high: let's say a new machine costs between 600€ and 1000€ (depending on the trade course requirements). If you have 30 machines for each classroom, it's something around 24k. (Then there are lots of classrooms, you get the idea)
By having "cloud" desktops, there's no need for renewing old hardware, since you can have something like xfce + the viewer, and all the systems can easily manage that load (we even have classrooms with RPIs), and this can be a huge money saving
In the end, cloud desktops aren't the best option for all the use cases, as the author puts it:
> Overall, the most important thing to take into account here is that your users almost certainly have more use cases than you expect, and this sort of change is going to have direct impact on the workflow of every single one of your users. Make sure you know how much that's going to be, and take that into consideration when suggesting it'll save you money.
In my opinion, developing is not a really good use case. Some of our team develops using VSCode + SSH against a remote VM.
One of the best use cases we've found is education and, specifically, trade schools. There are some trade school courses that require really specific software (image and sound, designing electronics, interacting with proprietary robots, etc.), and it's a painful experience to manage all of that, add new programs, etc. (some trade schools have 60+ courses, each one having different subjects and different software through the year!) By having cloud desktops, the teacher can create a template with their requirements and share that template with the students, and if the requirements change, it's as simple as modifying the template and sharing it again.
Also, most of the public schools here are underfunded, so they end up with really old machines, and the cost of renewing a whole classroom gets really high: let's say a new machine costs between 600€ and 1000€ (depending on the trade course requirements). If you have 30 machines for each classroom, it's something around 24k. (Then there are lots of classrooms, you get the idea)
By having "cloud" desktops, there's no need for renewing old hardware, since you can have something like xfce + the viewer, and all the systems can easily manage that load (we even have classrooms with RPIs), and this can be a huge money saving
In the end, cloud desktops aren't the best option for all the use cases, as the author puts it:
> Overall, the most important thing to take into account here is that your users almost certainly have more use cases than you expect, and this sort of change is going to have direct impact on the workflow of every single one of your users. Make sure you know how much that's going to be, and take that into consideration when suggesting it'll save you money.