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Imagine that you have to compile a large project, which will take 8 hours on your laptop.

Long-running jobs make your local computer unavailable for hours or days.

Your Internet service provider gives you very little bandwidth, but you need access to tens or hundreds of gigabytes of data.

You use multiple devices in multiple locations and want a consistent work environment with the same tools, look, files, and performance.You need access to a Linux-based operating system, complete with a desktop environment, but can’t install it on your personal computer.The setup described in this tutorial is useful when:

This cloud desktop will include the same utilities that you would obtain had you installed Ubuntu 18.04 and the XFCE environment on your personal computer (almost identical to a Xubuntu setup). In this tutorial, you’ll use X2Go to create an XFCE desktop environment that you can access remotely. It is also more responsive and more secure than many VNC solutions. By contrast, X2Go provides a working “cloud desktop,” complete with all the advantages of an always-online, remotely-accessible, and easily-scalable computing system with a fast network. Unfortunately, VNC solutions can be sluggish and insecure many also require a lot of manual configuration. Whenever you want to run GUI applications on your instance, the typical solution is to employ Virtual Network Computing (VNC).

Usually, Linux-based servers don’t come with a graphical user interface (GUI) pre-installed. The author selected Software in the Public Interest (SPI) to receive a donation as part of the Write for DOnations program.