Why do many servers have no graphics?

Question

linux

Why do many servers have no graphics?
When you access via ssh protocol, communication occurs through the console.
Is there a protocol with graphics? Does it really take up so many resources that there was no place for it in 2019?

Answer 1

Why do many servers have no graphics?

Yes. Eats a lot of disk space, in RAM with its leaks (hello GNOME), sometimes loads the CPU by 100% (hello KDE), requires video, eats an Internet channel, but you need it once every six months.
What, ssh failed?

Answer 2

Because she is not needed where everything works fine without her. Even Windows exists in the "only console" edition, and even in Linux, dragging graphics to the server is a meaningless occupation from the word at all - 99% of server configuration tasks do not require it.

Answer 3

and why if everything can be done from the console?
Windows graphics are needed, it works via RDP. although in the latest versions they screw powershell + ssh and also refuse graphics

Answer 4

Too thick.

Answer 5

servers don't need it. most of the time the server should be running and not wasting resources rendering graphics to itself. although nothing prevents you from installing a graphical environment and using it. usually it is not done because of inexpediency.

Answer 6

Because it is more expedient to spend memory and server resources to draw you a window with frills and whistles on faster and more efficient servicing of a client remote request.

Answer 7

schedule can be set to any

Answer 8

Linux is configured not through the registry, but through configuration files, they are easy to open in the editor, there is no point in a graphical shell for them.

Answer 9

* On Linux, there is no single GUI for all servers
* Graphics consume more resources than text. Therefore, *nix initially went the other way and began to develop it.
* Everything that is written in text commands, with a wave of the hand, turns into a script and is automated.
Therefore, even in ancient times, *niks went to develop in a different direction, and in my opinion they won, which shows the popularity of servers on *niks systems.
1. Another developed way is to install normal monitoring systems, with graphics, dynamics, and so on, but they look like web applications, which allows you not to worry about the client part at all - it will work everywhere.
2. But if you really want to, you can use the same ssh to forward x11 and run GUI applications remotely. It's just not *nix way, and there is not much such software

Answer 10

I think in the future the developers of SSH linux will pay more attention to usability and graphics, and at least they will draw it on the client's software :) so that the channel is not clogged with unnecessary traffic