I forced EVERYONE to use Linux

NetworkChuck makes his entire team switch to a single Linux terminal server using ThinLinc! Watch as Chuck's employees remote into the centralized server, transforming their workflow and showcasing the power of Linux. Alongside Chuck, Alex guides you through installing ThinLinc on both client and server sides. See the team in action as Mike creates a Blender model and Florida Nick edits it, all on the terminal server. Whether you're a Linux enthusiast or curious about remote desktop solutions, discover the power of ThinLinc!

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0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - What is a Terminal Server?
3:30 - What do you need?
4:45 - Installing ThinLinc (Server-side)
8:09 - Adding Users
8:55 - Installing ThinLinc (Client-side)
10:36 - Installing VirtualGL
16:42 - The Team Tries out ThinLinc
18:05 - Who is “Kokey”?
19:22 - Mike Update
20:11 - Web Administration Tool

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[NetworkChuck]

NetworkChuck makes his entire team switch to a single Linux terminal server using ThinLinc! Watch as Chuck's employees remote into the centralized server, transforming their workflow and showcasing the power of Linux. Alongside Chuck, Alex guides you through installing ThinLinc on both client and server sides. See the team in action as Mike creates a Blender model and Florida Nick edits it, all on the terminal server. Whether you're a Linux enthusiast or curious about remote desktop solutions, discover the power of ThinLinc!

LINKS / RESOURCES:

Every webpage/resource mentioned in the video:







**Sponsored by Cendio

0:00 - Introduction
0:46 - What is a Terminal Server?
3:30 - What do you need?
4:45 - Installing ThinLinc (Server-side)
8:09 - Adding Users
8:55 - Installing ThinLinc (Client-side)
10:36 - Installing VirtualGL
16:42 - The Team Tries out ThinLinc
18:05 - Who is “Kokey”?
19:22 - Mike Update
20:11 - Web Administration Tool

[geniustrash]

Chuck's employees look like snapshots of his looks during growing up

[WlfCL]

We are bringing back mainframes and terminals with this one

[Leseratte]

NetworkChuck: "Lets stop using proprietary Windows and use Linux cause it's free and open!"
Also NetworkChuck: Promotes a proprietary, closed-source, paid terminal server alternative that's neither free (except for personal use) nor open ...

I was about to say, what a cool solution, then I saw it's proprietary. Sounds like an ad video for that proprietary ***.

[Georgeg]

"Terminal services have been around for a long time" understatement of the century... The first office computers WERE terminal services and for a long period of time in 70/80s most offices WERE terminal services..

[shubhamranabhat]

not me, typing from my Samsung fridge

[theloniousMac]

Ironically you're actually going into the past for this. Before PCs became powerful enough to take over the Enterprise, this is how large businesses used mainframes. It was called Time Sharing. Everyone had a terminal, basically a dumb terminal that connected to a terminal server that connected to a port on the main frame. On the mainframe there would be dozens upon dozens of users each with the illusion that he/she was the only user on the computer. Some systems used UNIX, others used operating systems by DEC like RSTS/E, RSX, VAX/VMS and so on.

One problem with this method was that if the computer went down, all of those dozens upon dozens of users I just spoke about would be shit out of luck. So we often had large backup systems the whole thing in a cluster. If one went down, we'd shift all the users to another system. Back then I was writing load balancing software for the mainframes.

I dare say it is humorous watching you advocate going back to the same old method in 2024!

[richarddaugherty]

Love it! Retired dev here. Was a Visual Studio/T-SQL/Oracle developer for 30 years. Been a big fan of your channel for a long time with Raspberry Pi projects! I just dumped Windows because I refuse to buy a new computer just to run Windows 11. Switched to Linux Mint and am very happy!

[fyrestorme]

Ok.. please do not manually edit the /etc/group file.
usermod -aG group user
instead

[just_michael]

0:35 "But with Windows 11, we can't do that. But with Linux we can't"

There's a bug in your captions.

[Starfire]

I'd rather use XDM or X over SSH than proprietary stuff. That is really free with no strings.

[MaddMo]

Came here to talk about the hilarious Chuck background on Alex's laptop. 😂

[KosmosAc]

So this is basically a 23 minutes cendio commercial, shwing off a single user using blender through the terminal session and claiming that someone else is working in another session (19:55), while proving a few xeconds later that he isn't (20:39 and 20:46).
Don't get me wrong: I really love the idea and I really hope this works as promised, but I haven't seen anything that convinces me.

[liblevis]

At 13:09 you can just press CTRL+ALT+F2 - F4 and it'll open another shell on the system, there's no need to login through SSH. When you shut the display manager down the active one(whichever it is) will be inactive. Even if the display manager is running it'll switch to a shell.

[henrymach]

"Use Linux", he said, while wearing a fucking Apple watch.

[jakslayersyth]

Understanding that azure servers use linux makes the windows charging $1k even more humorous

[judewestburner]

Back around 2000 I was an administrator running a Citrix, so that's 24 years ago and it was awesome. 350 thin clients sitting across about 7 Windows NT 4 terminal server machines with Citrix Metaframe.

Upgrade everyone in one night to the latest software, no problem. Roll out that bug fix, no problem. Set up 20 new staff, no problem.

[mikecondo]

0:01 it sounded like you censored the word Mac lol

[FluffyPuppyKasey]

So as someone who daily drives Linux I'd genuinely recommend using Fedora if your machine is running brand new hardware, which based on the RTX 4090 is probably the case. That's simply because Fedora ships with MUCH newer kernels, meaning it has fixes and improvements for new hardware. It's also, in my experience, rock solid!

Also, I just ran glxspheres64 on my RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPU and I'm getting 10x the performance. Please install the Nvidia driver!!

I LOVE the cutaways to Florida Nick editing, 10/10

[LukeKendall-author]

You do know that UNIX/X always supported multiple users connecting from terminals; and back in the 90s and even earlier, this included graphical terminals like NeWS or X11 or Display Postscript (NeXTStep). Not to mention desktop, VNC...
All basically because UNIX and Linux are multiuser systems from the ground up. Always have been.