Can’t imagine using my system without this.

  • @rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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    24 hours ago

    remote access

    To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

    Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

    • Eager Eagle
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      3 hours ago

      I’ve used plenty of sshfs a few years ago, but x11 forwarding is a compromise. The latency makes it painful to work with for more than a few minutes.

      • @rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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        119 minutes ago

        Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.

        Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).