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How often does one need to do that though? At ${dayjob} we do it once in a blue moon; not out of sheer necessity but for legacy reasons. Other than that I nev

by cpach 5y ago

How often does one need to do that though? At ${dayjob} we do it once in a blue moon; not out of sheer necessity but for legacy reasons. Other than that I never do it.

tablespoon 5y ago
>> until you need to forward X, which I sometimes find very useful (on a LAN it's not too bad) > Other than that I never do it. If we got rid of all the features that someone never uses (or even a lot of people never use), we wouldn't have any features anymore.
handrous 5y ago
I think there's a lot of potential for "run an app remotely, draw it locally". A crippled, single-application version of that's an entire, recent, highly-publicized startup, even (the controversial remote-Chrome-as-a-service company that's been posted about quite a bit in the last couple months). I think it's not widely done because Apple and Microsoft haven't put out good tooling for it. If one of them released that kind of thing as a high-quality, polished feature, I bet it'd be big. Also, IMO the default set-up and behavior for it on Linux machines isn't very good (shocker, that). Much better would be persistent remote sessions that let you drop your connection on one machine and re-connect on another, and leave them running indefinitely when not connected. You can get that working with some extra software but it's a bit janky and the UX is nerd-only, like most of this stuff.
amrcnimgrnt 5y ago
When you need it you need it, no matter how often. in grad school we used it to share very powerful workstations without getting out of the office. Sometimes I need to use a GUI program on my Desktop while I'm away. It might be something as silly as adjusting a parameter on a simulation run. Sometimes I want to start a program on a remote computer (say VLC on my kids laptop downstairs) Embarrassing admission - sometimes I know how to adjust a setting from the GUI and not from terminal. Maybe I want to mute a computer downstairs (btw, just an example. I'd use alsamixer, if killall weren't an option). Honestly, I'd use it a lot more if it were faster and less laggy. Daily, even.

by cpach 5y ago

How often does one need to do that though? At ${dayjob} we do it once in a blue moon; not out of sheer necessity but for legacy reasons. Other than that I never do it.

tablespoon 5y ago

>> until you need to forward X, which I sometimes find very useful (on a LAN it's not too bad) > Other than that I never do it. If we got rid of all the features that someone never uses (or even a lot of people never use), we wouldn't have any features anymore.

handrous 5y ago

I think there's a lot of potential for "run an app remotely, draw it locally". A crippled, single-application version of that's an entire, recent, highly-publicized startup, even (the controversial remote-Chrome-as-a-service company that's been posted about quite a bit in the last couple months). I think it's not widely done because Apple and Microsoft haven't put out good tooling for it. If one of them released that kind of thing as a high-quality, polished feature, I bet it'd be big. Also, IMO the default set-up and behavior for it on Linux machines isn't very good (shocker, that). Much better would be persistent remote sessions that let you drop your connection on one machine and re-connect on another, and leave them running indefinitely when not connected. You can get that working with some extra software but it's a bit janky and the UX is nerd-only, like most of this stuff.

amrcnimgrnt 5y ago

When you need it you need it, no matter how often. in grad school we used it to share very powerful workstations without getting out of the office. Sometimes I need to use a GUI program on my Desktop while I'm away. It might be something as silly as adjusting a parameter on a simulation run. Sometimes I want to start a program on a remote computer (say VLC on my kids laptop downstairs) Embarrassing admission - sometimes I know how to adjust a setting from the GUI and not from terminal. Maybe I want to mute a computer downstairs (btw, just an example. I'd use alsamixer, if killall weren't an option). Honestly, I'd use it a lot more if it were faster and less laggy. Daily, even.