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You can use VNC/RDP to remote into a graphical session. Graphical vs. terminal are both arbitrary binary streams over SSH, the computer doesn't care. There's no
by zelly 6y ago
You can use VNC/RDP to remote into a graphical session. Graphical vs. terminal are both arbitrary binary streams over SSH, the computer doesn't care. There's no advantage to the terminal based one other than maybe less network utilization. I'd resort to that if I were traveling and only had my mobile phone's data as internet.
- Reelin 6y ago> You can use VNC/RDP to remote into a graphical session. I didn't mean to imply that you couldn't. Rather I aimed to provide a broader sense for why someone might find a terminal based spreadsheet program useful. > There's no advantage to the terminal based one other than maybe less network utilization. I have to strongly disagree here. My experience with remote graphical environments, even on a wired LAN, has been less than satisfying. I suspect that a large factor for me is the latency; it doesn't take much to make a GUI feel "wrong" to me while a text based interface will just feel slow but not really bother me. On top of such personal preferences, consider the overhead of running a graphical environment in every container or VM you might happen to make use of.