Comment by guhcampos
7 days ago
It's a very, very thin web layer on top of native code:
https://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/features.html
To the author's defense: Cockpit is Linux only, and they seem to intend on making this also available on Windows and Mac.
Still, I don't see the appeal they seem to do, especially since it relies so much on SSH. The biggest use case I can think for something like this in the real world is something like first-time setup or MDM, and on both situations setting up SSH to begin with has the same level of friction they're trying to remove.
Windows has quite a lot of remote admin tools that work pretty transparently over the network though.
The issue is that they're historically never turned on or heavily restricted.
Where the user is involved though RDP is a world class remote desktop never exceeded by Linux anywhere.
If someone wants to impress me, point Claude at Wayland and get it so I can seamlessly open remote RDP from somewhere else, lock the local user session and resume it on the remote desktop, then walk back to the original terminal and continue working in that same user session. This worked perfectly over 20 years ago.
Yeah, RDP is great. Sunshine has basically solved this problem for me on Linux, even with {way,hypr}land (haven't tried on macos yet)
Had a look and the "locked local session" problem is still not solved. The gui would be unlocked and visible on the host the whole time.
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