Linux VM as a virtual desktop at workplace

UNIX for Beginners Q & A
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In my workplace, every IT employee has been provided 2 Windows VMs. So, although you use laptop, any actual is work is done from either of these 2 VMs which we call a Virtual desktop. Once logged into my Windows 10 laptop, I use remote desktop (RDP) connection to connect to my virtual desktop.

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I am thinking of requesting a similair Virtual desktop but a Red Hat or Oracle Linux one with gnome desktop. From my laptop, I can just use putty to ssh to my virtual desktop. But, that will only take me to the command line of the this Linux VM. I want to connect to Linux VM's gnome GUI environment. Similair to the remote desktop (RDP) connection, what tool should I use to connect to my Linux VM's gnome GUI environment (from my Windows 10 work laptop)

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You have a ton of options for doing this.

Search the web for "Linux RDP Server".

For example:

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SSH itself can do it. Just enable X Forwarding in the VM sshd configuration, then request forwarding in your client when connecting. AFAIK, Putty can be configured to request forwarding by default in SSH options.

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X11Forwarding with SSH is really easiest and proved way of doing remote desktop. Another good way is to setup VNC on your linux system.

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We use AnyDesk for this and it works great, in practice:

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I've used Apache Guacamole to access Windows and Linux via web browser, and i can say only the best about it.
Surprisingly fast and snappy HTML5 interface to access RDP, VNC and SSH clients from central place.

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.