posted 17 years ago
I do. My desktop at home is an AMD64 system with the native-code Eclipse on it. I'm a little afraid to use it, partly because of portability concerns, partly because of some stability problem I used to have.
So I created a Xen VM on a 32-bit machine, cranked up a copy of CentOS linux, installed Eclipse and friends. Now I ssh-login into the VM using the '-X' option and run the AMD64 as an X server with the Xen VM as the X client running Eclipse. X has its ideas of client and server opposite to where you'd think, BTW.
This is OK on a local 100MB LAN link, but you might find it a little slow on the open Internet.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.