Hello,
Stefan Baur wrote:
in an adjacent thread, Alex made a statement that low-bandwidth internet connections are a thing of the past, and thus NX is basically obsolete.
I have personal experience to share which proves him wrong.
Here is mine : France 2020, rural area (village of less than 200 humans (but many more sheep)).
ADSL is below 2 Mbps downstream, 0.5 Mbps upstream.
Fibre-to-the-home was planned for 2017 but several times postponed. Now promised for 2021.
Currently I am using 4G/LTE and switching between 2 providers:
- first provider speeds vary from 20 Mbps up and downstream at 5 am to less than 1 Mbps after 20:00.
- second provider offers a constant 1 Mbps service, I use it as fallback when wife and kids watch Youtube.
Some of my users live nearby, so I know they do not get better speeds.
During the COVID 19 lockdown, many started working from home.
From a rescue tool, X2GoClient became their most important piece of software.
I advised them to download and install their usual tools onto their home computers (Thunderbird, Firefox and LibreOffice), then setup X2GoClient shared folders so they could work efficiently.
By the way, all these free software tools work on MacOSX, Windows and Gnu/Linux, which allowed all users to work from home.
I agree with Stephan:
So NX will be here for quite some time, there is a need for it, and for less fancy, but lightweight desktops that work well with it.
We use XFCE4 and users like it.
-- Sébastien