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And after all that work you can't even use your GUI over SSH.
by likeclockwork 5y ago
And after all that work you can't even use your GUI over SSH.
- Izkata 5y agoSure, with X11 forwarding.
- saulpw 5y agoYou can't use your GUI over 9600 bps serial port (yes this is sometimes still relevant).
- wutbrodo 5y agoOr even just a shitty wifi connection in an underdeveloped region or area.
- II2II 5y agoThe major desktop and workstation operating systems usually have an SSH client installed by default. The same cannot be said for X11. It is easy enough to use X11 on a mobile device. You may be able to get an X client for a mobile device, but I wouldn't want to use it. (Not to mention that some X11 software doesn't seem to work across the network these days, which causes me no end of frustration since RDP is usually fantastic. Not to mention the bandwidth requirements of graphical sessions, which is a concern over mobile networks.)
- IshKebab 5y agoWindows doesn't have an SSH client installed by default. But I agree with your point - setting up SSH is way easier than X11 and X11 doesn't even work that well over the internet. VNC would be a more reasonable answer but that is a pain to set up server-side on Linux and isn't very good. Really NX4 is the answer but it costs an absolute fortune.
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- IshKebab 5y agoWeb UIs solve most of that - even easier to implement than TUIs and you can use them remotely. The only big issues I have with them are security (most don't restrict connections to the same user and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them listen on 0.0.0.0) and launching them. There isn't a good cross-platform way to launch a browser.