Best distro / apps for X Windows
Is there a guide for configuring XWindows on a Linode host?
I want to use a Linode server as an Xserver.
Which client App do people recommend? (for Windows 10)
I'd rather not use Cygwin
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For the server, all you have to do is install the x11-apps package and configure it correctly. Any distro that has this available will be fine (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc.). See:
- https://x410.dev (pay for, apparently)
- http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/
for the client side. Don't install any of the desktop GUI stuff unless you want to use the server desktop remotely.
Before attempting this, I would make sure that your network latency is very, very low…otherwise this is going to be very, very slow.
YMMV…
-- sw