In Windows, you need to resort to other programs like WinSCP or Filezilla to visually browse ssh shares. In Linux, file managers natively support this.
First add your ssh key to the agent:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/mykey_openssh.pvt
Next, for convenience, create a config file so you can use aliases to connect.
Eg: To connect to 35.180.101.49 as root, we will use the alias ovh. So config file looks like this:
Host ovh
Hostname 35.180.101.49
User root
Port 22
Now open a file manager, and in the address bar type this:
sftp://ovh4
It will momentarily show the root directory of the remote server. You can now edit remote scripts on your favorite locally installed IDEs. Enjoy!
Thunar seems slow for this. Nemo is perfect.
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