@tallship @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42

Hey there! Well, if I ever complained about someone else hijacking one of my threads, that would SERIOUSLY be "the quacta calling the stifling slimy" to borrow a phrase from #StarWars.

I have used Remmina in the past, but I currently use KRDC for my #VNC needs.

But the issue raised in the original post was searching for a remote desktop solution that worked over the internet without the need of a local LAN connection, or some kind of VPN or tailscale.

I think flatpak definitely has its place, and I like the fact that it's more isolated by default than native packages. I think running a super-stable distro like Debian and using flatpak to get up-to-date application packages is a great solution, the best of both worlds.

As far as appimage goes, I think it's a nice way to package binaries, but lacks a method to stay up-to-date, and lacks isolation/containerization (although that part can definitely be hacked together).

#Lagrange is sweet! Very pretty #Gemini client, and the config is pretty flexible such that you can do a lot of keyboard-navigation if you tweak it.

You know, I was just thinking of Ubuntu yesterday. I had run Kubuntu on my laptop a little while ago and it was... fine? I did manually remove snap, though. Because if Canonical wanted to doggedly maintain one of their in-house-developed solutions, I rather would have wished that it had been Ubuntu Touch (which people needed), not snap. I know UBPorts is a thing, of course.

@rl_dane @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42

Hey R.L. Dane,

as per your OP in this thread, I've been using #Remmina for years. X2Go, RDP, WhatEv really floats yer boat ⛵ , it's there.

Uh, oh, I feel a tangent coming on... Okay not to hijack your thread, but maybe you can offer a bit of your perspective on flatpak vs appimage alternatives, since I don't prefer either, and usually will go out of my way to create a native package for WhatEv distro I'm using if it doesn't exist, or just compile from source rawdawg if need be like I did with #Zed (which only impresses me because of Git integration and Vim bindings; and it's Rust) - Jury's still out on that one though.

Anyway, I just broke down and installed a flatpak for the #LaGrange browser because I got a bit lazy and didn't wanna make the .deb for myself.

Okay, back to your situation...

Remmina HERE is pretty comprehensive with the native package managers with ready to go .deb's for #Forky & Sid, #SlackBuild for #Slackware, #FreeBSD & #OpenBSD ports, #Devuan, #Gentoo, #Guix, and #Kali just to name some.

It's pretty straight-forward and a single package to accommodate a plethora of methodologies so you can use it as your Varsity first string go-to in a pinch most of the time.

Even better, is the fact that they don't have an ewb00ntew maintainer, lolz... Coz frinds don't let frinds run ewb00tew :p

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