XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us

Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by morsch on Friday July 11, 2014 @01:07PM (#8021224)

I do 99% of my development in the office in an eclipse instance running on a remote server connected via LAN. It's completely seamless, you would have absolutely no way of knowing that it's not running locally. Having never use RDP, I can't rule out it's as good; I don't see how it could be better. VNC is laughably bad in comparison.

For working from home, we've got NX. Again, it mostly just works; I can't really tell that it's a non-local window. Again, I can't rule out though cannot imagine RDP does it better; some amount of latency is unavoidable via WAN; VNC would be excruciating.

This setup has been working fine for about 6 years now, btw.

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Re:XPlain – Explaining X11 for the rest of us by Torgo on Friday July 11, 2014 @03:34PM (#8021976)

I am also using NX (specifically, Nomachine's NX, an older version before they replaced everything with proprietary crap.) Right now for Linux, I think it is still the best thing going. I use it in full desktop mode, as if it were a VNC or RDP session. Offsite, there's very little latency or artifacting. Onsite, as you say, it's nearly indistinguishable.

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