In the last two months I’ve been almost forced to use this humble EeePc of mine at work: a humble netbook from 2010. It was cheap even then (199€ with Ubuntu!) that I have bought because of its portability, knowing it was a slowish machine. For my work flow it’s unbearably slow so I use the plain old remote X sessions, such as paolo@eeepc:~$ ssh -Xf laboratorio oocalc. On a plain LAN it’s almost perfect, while a VNC session is much slower.

I tried Xrdp but on Centos it has some glitches. So why keep trying to use when good old X-Windows is up to the task?

Well, I do acknowledge that in case of real remote session a plain X-session is the slowest thing on planet Earth while RDP seems to provide a better experience than VNC. Too bad I’ve been unable to make it work without passing trough a local VNC session which seems to me a workaround.