[TriLUG] Opinion Seeking: Remote Linux Desktops

Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Mon Feb 22 10:28:08 EST 2016


On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> VNC is how I do it but when outside the house, only over a tunneled SSH
> connection.

      I second that motion. But then again I am doing it right now.
Just setup VNC to do localhost only since the ssh port forwarding will
take care of that.

>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> I'm getting closer and closer to having my primary home workstation spend
>> most of its time running Linux.  One thing I have yet to really nail down
>> is remote desktop.  When it's running Windows, I connect to the machine via
>> RDP quite frequently, so I'll need the same functionality with hopefully
>> comparable (if not better) performance.  Is VNC still the mechanism of
>> choice for Linux remote desktops?  Recently I tried out NoMachine, which
>> seemed cool, but isn't libre.  As far as remote X, I've never once seen it
>> outperform RDP, so it's pretty much not in the running.  Thoughts?
>>
>> -B
>>
>>
>>
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