RDP solves problems way outside that use case. The upcoming ssh native ssh server looks nice, but RDP exists for working with GUI applications. Windows&#x27; rasion d&#x27;etre is, well, Windowed applications as a alterntive to the command line stuff that ruled in the 1980s in business, so its no surprise that even its server end is largely graphical, at least from a legacy perspective. MS is pushing powershell admin tools very hard in its own products and encouraging other vendors to do so.<p>From  the CLI, I get by with psexec and the standard windows command line tools, many of which are fairly powerful and &quot;good enough&quot; for Windows administration even before ps existed. I manage roughly 100 windows PCs this way without issue.   Group Policy is also hard to beat. 90% of our administration is done just with GPO&#x27;s. The PCs and servers are automatically configured from soup to nuts once they join the domain. Changes are trivial to make and percolate to all systems. Its actually quite pleasant.<p>In the linux world, this is all a PITA as the CLI doesn&#x27;t really help with with Windowed userland issues (firefox looks funny, cant click on something, etc). NX helps but generally we just used third-party remote stuff. VNC is a massive security hole that should never be used.  Nowadays, this isn&#x27;t even a concern as the linux desktop is pretty dead in my industry. OSX ate whatever goodwill it had for most.