Which Linux distro for Remote Desktop

[RobTi]

Hi so finally wiped my whs 2011 machine and would like to try Linux I don’t game and only use my win 10 desktop for browsing/ printing, so thought this would be ideal way to try Linux, so any recommendations?
Thanks

[AGTDenton]

It would largely depend what you want to achieve with the system.
If it's just general browsing and desktop use you can't go wrong starting with Ubuntu.

If your WHS machine acted like a NAS, then you could consider TrueNAS

[RobTi]

Thanks at the moment I just want to try Linux but need it to have a remote gui so I can play about from my win 10 desktop and then maybe set it back up for server duties

[kalniel]

If you really want a play from Windows then just run a linux image from a virtual machine.

But once you've done that and you want to try the remote desktop stuff then just about every linux flavour plays well with remote. Ubuntu is a really dependable go-to. Mint is built ontop of Ubuntu and includes a bit more multimedia support if you were wanting to run that from your server.

[DanceswithUnix]

TBH, I find using Windows to access Linux a horrible experience. Running a Linux VM on Windows is better but still not nice.

If you want to try Linux. grab a cheap 500GB SSD and dual boot on your main machine. Then you can remote from Linux to Linux on your server.

I am a fan of Fedora with the KDE desktop, that's what I typing this on. Note that the window manager is quite a big part of the user experience, most distros these days come with Gnome which I personally can't stand.

KDE is where Microsoft seem to be getting all their ideas since about Windows 7

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/kde/

[b0redom]

Actually WSL makes connecting to Linux pretty simple, just drop to a bash shell and SSH. I’ve not tried using it for graphical stuff as I don’t use Linux for anything graphical, purely as a server.

[DanceswithUnix]

Actually WSL makes connecting to Linux pretty simple, just drop to a bash shell and SSH. I’ve not tried using it for graphical stuff as I don’t use Linux for anything graphical, purely as a server.

I find "ssh -X" from my Linux box pretty useful for things like firing up virt-manager to play with virtual machines.

[matts-uk]

Thanks at the moment I just want to try Linux but need it to have a remote gui so I can play about from my win 10 desktop and then maybe set it back up for server duties

You might need to play about with Linux to get this working but I find it performs better than VNC or raw X (shudder).

http://xrdp.org/

I have XRDP running on CentOS+Mate and XUbuntu. One was dead easy to set up, the other wasn't. Can't remember which was the easy one. Both boxes have been in production for a few years now.

VNC is simple to install on most of the mainstream distros.