cagsm wrote:
non-desktop user of Linux here. How to best switch over to OpenSuSE on the desktop for daily normal gui life on the desktop?
There is only one way - just do it.
So far only on windows. I have a physical windows machine, I run gui and applications on it. The machine stays running. I lock the screen desktop. I return to the machine physically and have all my stuff running or available.
The only thing you may need to worry about is anything on your Windows machine that does not exist for Linux. Usually fairly specialized applications or consumer electronics software.
How would I switch over from so far working on windows (normal firefox, mails/thunderbird, office documents related stuff) to a linux opensuse main machine.
Just do it :-) I switched over myself and my company sixteen years ago.
How do I get my pixels to my off-site physical machine the best ways? I remember x11-servers and names of some such tools on windows from days back when hummingbird exceed or similar stuff. What would be the best practices to simply be able to access the screen of a linux machine from nearly anywhere from remotely in safe and sound means?
You use X over SSH. '-X' enables X forwarding over SSH.
Maybe I am going down the wrong road or doing things not in a fancy way. Thanks for insight.
Sometimes it is best to describe the problem rather than the current solution. It sounds to me like you want GUI access to remote Linux systems, which I believe is best done by enabling X11 forwarding. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland.