> On the topic of web viewing, do you know that engineers want this? In my experience, managers liked it because they could get an overview quickly, but the engineers hated it because it involved copy-pasting paths from the browser to their local tools.
In my experience it's the opposite. While some firms issue Linux workstations to their engineers most use VDIs (and god forbid sometimes VNC) hosted in a datacenter that can be far from the office. The already poor latency becomes atrocious when they say open Verdi over LSF, which is X-forwarded from the host to the VM before getting encoded and sent to the client.
Web tools bring the interface and rendering over to the client side and allow for a much smoother experience even if the server is physically far away.
In my experience it's the opposite. While some firms issue Linux workstations to their engineers most use VDIs (and god forbid sometimes VNC) hosted in a datacenter that can be far from the office. The already poor latency becomes atrocious when they say open Verdi over LSF, which is X-forwarded from the host to the VM before getting encoded and sent to the client.
Web tools bring the interface and rendering over to the client side and allow for a much smoother experience even if the server is physically far away.