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The advantage is that you can run it in a terminal... So in tmux, over ssh, etc.


Why or how is that an advantage over proper GUIs via some remote desktop protocol?


Latency. My home setup has a different number of screens vs the single virtual display on the headless workstation/instance. I don't want to deal with a Linux GUI shoved into my Mac via screenshare. Linux screenshare host is finicky in the first place. I do lots of stuff via CLIs anyway. I connect to multiple remote instances at once. All those reasons make it easier to SSH.




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