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by Crysstalis
1414 days ago
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If you cannot install any packages at all without major hassle, then I think you would have a lot worse problems in many other areas besides this. As I said elsewhere in the thread, X11 is also a horrible remoting solution, pretty much worse than every other possible option in every way. The only reason it seems anyone would even consider using it is because ssh has built-in support for it, or if you only use a handful of small Xaw3d or Motif applications with no graphics or bitmaps. |
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I don't. I deal with many thousands of Linux servers. Batteries-included languages and X forwarded are my bread and butter. Losing the latter would make my job much, much worse. Of course, it would be nice to install random packages, but I can't.
> The only reason it seems anyone would even consider using it is because ssh has built-in support for it, or if you only use a handful of small Xaw3d or Motif applications with no graphics or bitmaps.
This is absolutely absurd and a completely ridiculous exaggeration approaching slander. I use perfectly normal, modern applications with X forwarding every day with zero issue, including web browsers (Firefox), image editors (GIMP), file managers (Dolphin), IDEs (Eclipse), various developer tools (MySQL Workbench) etc.
Frankly, a comment like this is shocking because it's plainly untrue.
> The only reason it seems anyone would even consider using it is because ssh has built-in support for it
This is a tremendously bigger upside than you seem to be giving credit for.
I'm going to just say it in this comment, because HN rate-limiting is hitting me, but none of the solutions you mentioned meet the criteria I described in the other post.