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I have no Windows in my house, I would have tested this myself to see what goes wrong for you although I see a "password failed" in your picture but debugging such things on forums is a pain. I read that xrdp uses VNC behind the scenes so you probably didn't configure that right. I think it would be easier for you at this point to give X2Go a try. But X2Go limits you to desktop environments that don't use video hardware acceleration. This seems to be the case with xrdp too from what I read although there seem to be workarounds. So, X2Go with MATE, XFCE or LXDE or the sluggish VNC with pretty much any desktop. P.S.: X2Go is incredibly fast, I actually have customers that pay monthly for a service I offer based around this because they are that impressed. Anyone that has used VNC for a while and accepted the 4 frames per second and bad jpeg quality as the norm will have a "Wooow!" moment when using X2Go for the first time.

Connect from Linux to Windows GUI or viceversa?

If I understand right what you're trying to do: gpg --recipient someone --encrypt < filetoencrypt > outputfile You could also use --armor if you want an ASCII file instead of a binary one.

I would use it for Bitcoin cold storage. If you want crazy good optimization of resource usage, look up unikernels. Don't expect it to be easy but expect it to be efficient as hell. And even more secure... but that's another story. Edit: thumbs up @GadgetDX, forgot about TinyCore. Thanks for reminding me.

How come you need Python in Wine? You have it in Linux too. Why are you using such an old version of wine? Not much I can see without logs or terminal output.

See this list to find out what's supported by SteamCMD https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dedicated_Servers_List Don't know if it's worth backtracking the problems with nvidia. Try the Debian wiki on a clean install if you can. Although I'm kind of curious what "lspci -k" says and how the Xorg logs look like.

Most servers do not even require a graphics card. Debian wiki is usually the best source of info to try first on your distro: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers Get inspiration from here: https://www.vultr.com/docs/setting-up-a-garrys-mod-game-server There is a lot of stuff you don't need to run from here so pay attention (e.g. the firewall stuff is not necessary for your purposes) How many people would join these? I want to test some of my servers, maybe we can work something out.

sudo apt-get install wine q4wine; q4wine & disown

Your way would work but you will hit some stumbling blocks on the way which will be hard to understand if you're not familiar with how things work underneath. Another way is to add a Grub bootloader on the EFI System Partition and manually configure it to boot an ISO from a FAT32 partition. The ISO itself has to support this (like casper included with Ubuntu Live images) And a third weird way but maybe the easiest for you. This is just theory in my head as I never tested such a thing, just assuming here. But I remember some virtual machines can be configured to use a real system partition instead of a file. See this image from VMware's site: So if you select the boot image as the ISO and a real partition you might succeed. Maybe you could create two unformatted partitions, and let the Linux installer configure and format them, one as ESP and the other as the root partition. And if you're really lucky and it works out you could also avoid having to manually re-configure grub.cfg and fstab entries.

Exactly, I want my Prince of Persia to load in 8 seconds otherwise it won't feel like the good old days. Not to mention The Incredible Toon Machine having a laggy cursor on 386. When it was smooth on the 486 I felt like I made a $1000 upgrade. In fact, today to get the same jump in performance it would take more than $5k

Plugins/widgets coded well should use an insignificant amount of CPU time. Never saw this on my computer. And "a lot of CPU power" would just mean something is horribly wrong somewhere. (With simple effects) KDE and Gnome are more efficient graphics-wise if the hardware/drivers setup are right. Running it on the wrong combinations has generated this "compositing window managers are heavy bro" myth. I remember seeing people with computers better than mine running Windows 7 with that blocky 2000s look because they disabled all eye candy and effects. I benchmarked various things and saw negligible difference but they all thought stuff runs faster because of placebo effect. It took the same time to load heavy applications and render stuff. The only difference was like a few tens of megabytes less memory used. Losing aesthetics just to load an extra WordPad doesn't seem like a gain to me. A compositing window manager offloads a lot of work to the GPU which IS where calculating pixel positions and colors should happen anyway. Why should my CPU work on calculating lines and rectangles and such? Here's what the author of a window manager has to say: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/05/compositing-and-lightweight-desktops/ And I found this even more interesting: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/10/power-saving-and-desktop-effects/ And as a P.S.: anything that sits in the background, just waiting for interaction should strive to use close to 0% CPU. If it isn't, it's coded by a monkey and he should get a job at EA Games. I remember playing Need for Speed Underground 2 and thinking my video card was total crap. And then Half Life 2 worked flawlessly at max settings with over 60FPS while also looking so much better. And we have no examples of unoptimized code here. NFS wasn't unoptimized, it was craptimized. Like one thing that should normally take 1ms takes 20ms because the "programmer" over complicated some simple stuff. And then Half Life is an example of coding poetry and excellent optimization. But I digress...

Like I said in another similar topic, no matter what distro you use, a slow CPU will not work faster. Light distros are useful only because they load faster (from HDD) and use less RAM so you have more available for your applications. But once a destkop environment loads it mostly sits dormant. So it doesn't help me neither gets in the way of loading LibreOffice. LibreOffice will take the same time to load on Puppy Linux as it will on KDE. And YouTube in 720p will stress the CPU in the same way, even if I could run it on Windows 95 (which works even on computers with 8MB of RAM). Should make a page on the Internet to break this myth of light distros So to finalize: use a light distro so it loads faster and you don't get bored at the loading screen and use a light browser. For example Chrome/Chromium will be slow to load sites on that CPU on bloated sites, mostly because of a feature that compiles JavaScript to machine code. Focus on finding light applications that you use often.

Buy a 486 if you want real then.

Almost impossible to run some old OSs on new hardware. So run it through DosBox. It's a good emulator, acts and feels like the real thing. If you want more advanced emulation of old hardware try the Bochs emulator.

That's normal as you're starting out. In Windows you only have one pair of jeans and everybody's wearing it. Makes it easy, no choice, just go with the flow, less neuron activity. Later, when you'll start to get the hang of it, you won't see it as confusion anymore, you will see it as choice and feel free because you can do it YOUR WAY. Freedom is confusing when you get out of prison.