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The 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 X
by II2II 5y ago
The 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.