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Not just the terminal, I mean a full remote desktop. What's the best method? Not just from one linux machine to another machine, but also remoting from a windows machine to a linux machine.

I'm a bit of a linux novice, but trying to do more.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I avoid it at all costs as no solution is really seamless, but NoMachine gave me the best (perceived) latency out of VNC, TeamViewer, and a couple others I tried a couple years ago. It's also cross platform, but if the machines are in different networks (behind a NAT), you'll likely need to configure port forwarding manually or via their GUI.

edit: I just remembered I even played youtube videos and the transport fever 2 game via NX (NoMachine) for a few hours and it worked well, while other protocols had either too much of a degraded quality or latency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How intensive is nomachine? I've used it on decent hardware and it's performance was pretty good. But I'm thinking of setting it up on the raspbery pis at work since VNC is painful to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know how it compares, but I've used it on the Pi and on Android before, and both work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve used it on my pi before I disabled the display manager because I barely used it, but performance was fine. I could log in from my desktop, phone, laptop, another pi, anything really, which was nice to have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use NoMachine as well as it has been the most responsive solution for me.

My biggest problem that I finally figured out was that NoMachine was attaching to a VNC console instead of creating its own display when I was using it with Unraid VMs (KVM)