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[–] rasensprenger@feddit.de 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

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)

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[–] leo85811nardo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years 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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[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years 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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[–] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years 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.

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[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 years 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.

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