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Discussion on: Docker as an Alternative to Virtual Machines for Transient Environments That Require a GUI

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manish srivastava

Hello , Carlos , just landed on your post at midnight 2.30 am after searching all day for something similar. Have you any experience with Navida GPUs for docker. docs.docker.com/config/containers/...

I am facing an Issue. I agreed with you that docker is not for such thing like complete desktop. I have created three desktops from scratch and listening on xrdp.( just to experiment) . They all are fine and blazing fast in offline scenario but when on server they are slow (exception is xfce). I know, mate and gnome are resource hungry and heavy. Any suggestion?

xfce is good but mate and gnome

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Carlos Manique Silva • Edited

Hi!
I didn't understand your problem, think the post was truncated.
Regarding the lightness of window managers I think lxde is the lighter one, but lacks some simplicity in tools such as the ability to change keyboard layouts, and that is important for my use case, so I ended up with xcfe4.

Regarding the performance with remote traffic, it will always be a constraint, but the nomachine protocol I wrote about really helps.