• rasensprenger@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn’t have better RDP support)

    • leo85811nardo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot of proprietary engineering software (CAD, MATLAB, etc) or GUI heavy programs have poor or no terminal interface to work with, so the need remote desktop solution is valid

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      1 year ago

      I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH’d numbers

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      1 year ago

      I can do anything I “need” to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.

      At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.

    • redd@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I dont know how to mount external drives on Bash without root privilegues. On the Desktop environment it can be done by just clicking without root password.