#Linux community does someone know a tutorial for a kind of self made #ThinClient device?
I have an old notebook with Linux which does not anymore fit my power requirements, but I have a Linuc PC in my cellar which I use as working device over #RDP since a while and I love this way.
Is there a Remote-Desktop Linux Distribution (RDP, #VNC or #Moonlight) with the sole purpose to connect a VPN on startup and directly login to a Remote-Desktop and also redirect USB-Devices to remote?
Am I only one who immediately loses respect for hashtag abusers?
Nope.
There’s a very low chance that the OP is posting to here via mastodon, using AP.
(OP->feddit.org->mastodon->here)
Our client had thin clients that where managed via a controller over pxe. We replaced the hyperv with vm’s in the cloud and they didn’t want to buy new PCs. So we got them small SSDs instead and I set up a debian image with autologin and a script that asks for credentials to launch xfreerdp in fullscreen. It worked great (until they finally got new hardware).
I can give you some of the code next week if you want.
I set up an old thin client with Debian and lxqt to connect to a VM on Proxmox. Got the idea from an Apalrd’s Adventures video about VDI. It worked pretty well on a decent network, but it really suffered on high latency networks.
If you run X11, obviously X11 forwarding via SSH. It’s basically built in thin client. There’s also Xpra
For Wayland: https://github.com/neonkore/waypipe
Also for Wayland:
Oh amazing! Thank you! I’ve been using waypipe recently, but I miss the remote buffering capabilities of Xpra!
Remmina is kind of the best right now I’d say. Thinclient isn’t actually a thing much anymore outside of super locked down environments because of network state issues.
it’s a pretty big thing with wfh
Huh?
Our work from home setup is VPN and remote into the workstation at our desk in the office.
Regardless of how thick my client actually is, it’s a thin client for working from home.
