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I always found rdp on Linux far easier to use than all that X11 network stuff. I think it was a neat idea to have it built-in, but also never quite worked all t
by arp242 3y ago
I always found rdp on Linux far easier to use than all that X11 network stuff. I think it was a neat idea to have it built-in, but also never quite worked all that smoothly in my experience and really does complicate things quite a lot. Sometimes the practicalities of neat ideas don't really work out unfortunately.
- Gud 3y agoWhat do you mean, doesn’t work out? X forwarding works amazingly well, far above rdp…
- arp242 3y agoTo be honest it's been quite a while, so you'll have to forgive me if I don't recall the specifics, but rdp was essentially "I start daemon, I run rdp [dst]", and it works", whereas Xorg involved a lot more mucking about with commands and reading manpages and whatnot. I will admit that in part this was just my ignorance; I just used it to access my desktop on occasion from my laptop on the sofa and didn't really want to spend a lot of time on it. rdp was "it works out of the box effort-free and I can move on with my life" and X11 wasn't. Maybe I just didn't RTFM hard enough, but I didn't have to RTF anything for rdp, so... I use samba/SMB for similar reasons by the way; recently I wanted to setup a network drive (for the first time in about 10 years) and samba provided a much smoother "just works" type of experience than NFS. Sometimes I find the old-type Unix stuff a bit painful, especially for the "just want to get shit done" type of workflow (I did use NFS extensively with FreeBSD and NetBSD back in the day, but it seems I've forgotten almost everything).