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What Linux distro surprised you the most?

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During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

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venusenvy47@reddthat.com
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I was surprised, in a bad way, at how difficult it is to get any VNC running. I tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and base Debian, but couldn’t get any VNC working. The closest I got was with Debian, but it gave me a different desktop than what was coming out the video port to my monitor. I’d be interested in hearing if anyone has had better luck with anything.

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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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x11vnc works a dream once you have a systemd service running it on boot, but that rules Wayland out.
You may be able to get similar results by explicitly instructing the others to share display :0, otherwise they default to starting new sessions.

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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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X11vnc works like a dream on X11, couldnt agree more.

There is wayvnc for Wayland supposedly to solve the same problem, but I havent tried it myself yet

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caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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I’ve taken a couple of pokes at it with no results. I’ll just have to sit down with it some day and figure it out.

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venusenvy47@reddthat.com
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I can’t remember if I have Wayland on my Debian installation with XFCE. I installed it several months ago, so I will check.

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Psyhackological@lemmy.ml
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Use Remmina on the client and then install anything that opens and listens to VNC ports. For example TightVNC or RealVNC.

Just even a small sys admin tip for Android phones

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