What are currently the best protocols and clients for remote desktop/cloud computing?

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Hello everyone!
Long time GNU/Linux Laptop users. I am purchasing a desktop to help with some heavier tasks, but I doubt I will utilize it at a desk that often.

What are the best methods to create a remote desktop environment right now? Thank you so much for any help you can provide.
 


Hello and welcome to forums!

VNC is to my knowledge most popular free remote desktop for Linux.
There are different flavors of VNC but I don't know what's the difference between them so you might want to research about that.
 
@c46 :- Hallo.....and welcome to Linux.org.

Depends on what you want to do remotely. For my occasional needs, I find this site provides what I need:-


You install a small piece of software called an 'agent' on the remote machine, which does nothing else except listen out for an incoming data stream on one specific port; this can be started remotely if required. Then you simply view and/or control the remote desktop through your browser.

Or there's this:-


.....which, again, works in very much the same way. Yah, I admit; it's the lazy man's way of doing things, rather than messing around setting up a highly-secure VPN.....but for occasional, 'ad-hoc' use, they'll do the job quite acceptably.

Both do use end-to-end encryption, which does add a layer of protection at least.

If you want a dedicated app, you could do a lot worse than take a look at AnyDesk:-


We gave up on TeamViewer several years ago in Puppyland, and moved to Anydesk as our primary replacement.....though of course, with this one you MUST have it installed at both ends, a la Teamviewer. It's easier to do this stuff on-the-fly with the browser-based ones; just give your 'client', 'pupil' or whatever a URL to download the agent, and within minutes you can be helping them with whatever needs sorting out.


Mike. ;)
 
You can also use a RDP or VNC client like Ramenia or tiger vnc viewer.
 
TeamViewer is free as in beer but not open source. It's pretty solid.
 
If you're comfortable with terminal-based setups, using SSH with X forwarding is a simple solution. It allows you to run GUI applications remotely.
 


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