How to Control Your Linux PC with an Android Device

These days we all have a tablet or phablet device, and we often find ourselves later at night watching a movie or TV show, listening to music, or reading a good book. You can call this article a tutorial for the lazy, for people who are too tired at night to start some process(es) on their computer, move, delete, copy or rename some files, or even to shutdown their PC. Yes, there are all sorts of remote desktop solutions out there, but many costs a fortune or are badly implemented and don’t work as expected, forcing you to go to the PC after all and do the stuff you want to do. For this tutorial we will use a simple, secure and effective protocol called SSH (Secure Shell), which can be easily installed from your default software repositories (openssh in Arch Linux, or openssh-server in Ubuntu).