#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?

    • Giloron@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      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.

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        3 days ago

        Well that specifically is just remote desktop. As you said, doesn’t matter how thick, but if that’s all you use the machine for, I suppose you could call it a thin client.

        A Thin Client (at least traditionally) means it has whatever it needs preloaded to interact with the remote server and does nothing if little else.

        A “Thick Client” (never used that term professionally lol) would be just a machine that can do whatever without a remote server I suppose.