Desktop solutions for a self-hosted environment - eviltoast

Hi everyone

I’ve got a capable Ubuntu server hosting Docker, using Portainer to manage many stacks and containers. I’m about to add a couple machines to a swarm for a little fault-tolerance.

Before this, Docker was Windows hosted which gave me a useful addition; a handy remote desktop for those times when I wanted to do something remotely using a GUI at home.

https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/rdesktop seems to work OK but I wondered if the community here have any suggested alternatives. Instead of running within Docker, has anyone simply installed a GUI on the Ubuntu host?

Thanks in advance for your input.

  • SheeEttin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A GUI desktop for what? I’ve never installed a Linux server with a GUI.

    But you can certainly do it. I’m sure there’s a metapackage or something that will pull in all the requirements.

    • Sim@lemmy.nzOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is not to manage or work on the server, I use terminal and web-based UIs for all of that.

      This to host a desktop I can use remotely. Sometimes using my local desktop isn’t what I want to do; I might be running a lower power machine, or want to do something I can’t on the machine I’m actually using. Or I might want to use a remote Linux desktop from a Windows machine. Sometimes the other way around.