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Secure

ThinLinc sends all network traffic over encrypted tunnels

Local experience

Performance and responsiveness are equivalent to a local session

Reliable

A mature and well-established product which was first released in 2003

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ThinLinc use cases

Integrating ThinLinc in your solution or product

Linux access for Microsoft- and Apple-centric organizations

Centralized graphical Linux workspaces

ThinLinc in media production

Intuitive graphical access to HPC

Our clients

Ericsson Freie Universität Berlin Bielefeld University Center for Biotechnology L’Atelier Animation SCA Transtrend Norrköpings kommun RED Digital Cinema Raytheon Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center FMSB Manser AG

People say

ThinLinc is much smoother for the GUI experience over long-distance connections. Even from 2000 miles away ThinLinc provides a good experience, in our past NX can be more choppy. The ThinLinc installer is much nicer too, it’s much better at solving the dependencies on Linux systems. The built-in security in ThinLinc is a huge win, now we don’t have to deal with trying to secure/tunnel the insecure software protocols like VNC.

L. S.

In terms of feedback, I can say that I have tried VNC (clunky and no sound), MS Remote Desktop (painfully, painfully slow) and Real VNC (how on Earth do you install the license if you use professional subscription?). ThinLinc was easy to set up and just worked extremely well. 85ms is not so far away, and yet the MS client just chokes on it.

B.R.

I found the software to be very light and responsive: it's almost as if I was using the computer locally. I used to copy to my notebook the post-processing outputs of the numerical simulations (videos and images) that I run on the workstation. Now, using ThinLinc, I view such results remotely (videos and images load and run with great performance).

A.B

I must say that I am quite surprised by your product. We have used a lot of different remote desktop solutions in the past (RealVNC, NiceDCV, NoMachine, ...) but all had some issues at one point or the other. I came over ThinLinc only accidentally, but I was smiling all the way though my evaluation. Many things where we thought "it would be nice, if..." are addressed here.

T.G.

We’re a small life science startup, we have 3-4 scientists who need to remote into two Linux systems via GUI (they’re not command line folks) to test out some scientific programming. I used ThinLinc at my last company and was pleased how much better it was over NX/VNC/etc, and with an easy setup as well. We have the 5-pack license, I’m sure as we hire more folks we’ll need to get more. Thanks and keep up the good work!

L.S.

So I came across this article looking for help on configuring multiple ports/users for TigerVNC for a training class we are to start. I saw someone spoke about ThinLinc. I went to their website downloaded it, and can't believe how this is not more popular, its utterly a God send for people that need a vnc tool. It's fantastic.

I highly recommend ThinLinc!

rob_morin (Reddit)

Thank you for this suggestion. I have been banging my head against the wall for the past few days trying to figure out what was wrong with Debian 11 and VNC. I couldn't ever make it work with anything other than XFCE, and that was with only one account. So, not useful if I need additional users accessing the system. I installed this, and it was set up faster than VNC was!

Sllim126 (Reddit)

ThinLinc installation steps

Get ready

Ensure you have a proper Linux distribution available

Download server

Download the ThinLinc server software

Install server

Installing ThinLinc

Download client

Download the ThinLinc client software

Install client

Install the ThinLinc client software

Welcome To ThinLinc

Enter your server hostname and your login credentials

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