From my experience with the web browser on the Boox I don't think you'd want to use the Boox as a monitor for longer sessions except for reading text documents.
However, I believe if you are willing to use text-mode based applications which run in a console/terminal the experience would be much better. The reason is that these applications are very static, the screen doesn't change as much as with GUI based applications. They are also controlled via keyboard only - no mouse cursor which could create ugly trails on the screen.
Another advantage of a text-mode-only setup is that the bandwidth requirement is much lower than with VNC (much lower battery drain!).
Here is my plan:
- Set up a GNU/Linux server which runs all the applications (e.g. a Raspberry Pi)
- Connect to the server via ssh from the Boox (e.g. with ConnectBot app from F-Droid)
Some applications I'd run on the server which cover almost everything I need:
- terminal multiplexer/session manager: tmux
- web browser: lynx
- music player: cmus
- text editor: vim
- IRC client: irssi
- email client: mutt
Unfortunately though I've not been able to set up a key point of the setup: The USB keyboard. It looks like the kernel used by the Boox has OTG disabled (also see my other post here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=18 )