RDP solves problems way outside that use case. The upcoming ssh native ssh server looks nice, but RDP exists for working with GUI applications. Windows' rasion

RDP solves problems way outside that use case. The upcoming ssh native ssh server looks nice, but RDP exists for working with GUI applications. Windows' rasion d'etre is, well, Windowed applications as a alterntive to the command line stuff that ruled in the 1980s in business, so its no surprise that even its server end is largely graphical, at least from a legacy perspective. MS is pushing powershell admin tools very hard in its own products and encouraging other vendors to do so. From the CLI, I get by with psexec and the standard windows command line tools, many of which are fairly powerful and "good enough" for Windows administration even before ps existed. I manage roughly 100 windows PCs this way without issue. Group Policy is also hard to beat. 90% of our administration is done just with GPO's. The PCs and servers are automatically configured from soup to nuts once they join the domain. Changes are trivial to make and percolate to all systems. Its actually quite pleasant. In the linux world, this is all a PITA as the CLI doesn't really help with with Windowed userland issues (firefox looks funny, cant click on something, etc). NX helps but generally we just used third-party remote stuff. VNC is a massive security hole that should never be used. Nowadays, this isn't even a concern as the linux desktop is pretty dead in my industry. OSX ate whatever goodwill it had for most.