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Secure

ThinLinc sends all network traffic over encrypted tunnels

Local experience

Performance and responsiveness are equivalent to a local session

Reliable

A mature and well-established product which was first released in 2003

ThinLinc use cases

Our clients

Fairfield University

Lund University

ThinLinc is part of a system that provides a user-friendly and scalable desktop environment for HPC and visualization at Lund University.

Indiana University

ThinLinc is used to give hundreds of people graphical access to the university's supercomputer without any noticeable latency. ThinLinc's local drive functionality is very popular at Indiana University.

University of Chicago

Pharma Partners

Axelera Artificial Intelligence

Axelera AI develops advanced hardware and software solutions for AI inference and deep learning. By harnessing ThinLinc, a pure Linux VDI, they benefit from secure remote access, simplified deployment, and streamlined workflows.

DECTRIS

DECTRIS: A global leader in X-ray detection solutions, DECTRIS utilizes ThinLinc to provide their staff with secure and reliable remote access to Linux environments. This enhances their ability to collaborate and maintain efficient workflows, ensuring high performance across their teams, no matter where they are located

North American Government Research Organization

Professionals working with climate forecast and physical process modeling access the HPC applications from any location and any device in this North American research organization

Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf

Linköping University

UK Broadband

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People say

I found the software to be very light and responsive: it's almost as if I was using the computer locally. I used to copy to my notebook the post-processing outputs of the numerical simulations (videos and images) that I run on the workstation. Now, using ThinLinc, I view such results remotely (videos and images load and run with great performance).

A.B

We’re a small life science startup, we have 3-4 scientists who need to remote into two Linux systems via GUI (they’re not command line folks) to test out some scientific programming. I used ThinLinc at my last company and was pleased how much better it was over NX/VNC/etc, and with an easy setup as well. We have the 5-pack license, I’m sure as we hire more folks we’ll need to get more. Thanks and keep up the good work!

L.S.

I must say that I am quite surprised by your product. We have used a lot of different remote desktop solutions in the past (RealVNC, NiceDCV, NoMachine, ...) but all had some issues at one point or the other. I came over ThinLinc only accidentally, but I was smiling all the way though my evaluation. Many things where we thought "it would be nice, if..." are addressed here.

T.G.

So I came across this article looking for help on configuring multiple ports/users for TigerVNC for a training class we are to start. I saw someone spoke about ThinLinc. I went to their website downloaded it, and can't believe how this is not more popular, its utterly a God send for people that need a vnc tool. It's fantastic.

I highly recommend ThinLinc!

rob_morin (Reddit)

Thank you for this suggestion. I have been banging my head against the wall for the past few days trying to figure out what was wrong with Debian 11 and VNC. I couldn't ever make it work with anything other than XFCE, and that was with only one account. So, not useful if I need additional users accessing the system. I installed this, and it was set up faster than VNC was!

Sllim126 (Reddit)

In terms of feedback, I can say that I have tried VNC (clunky and no sound), MS Remote Desktop (painfully, painfully slow) and Real VNC (how on Earth do you install the license if you use professional subscription?). ThinLinc was easy to set up and just worked extremely well. 85ms is not so far away, and yet the MS client just chokes on it.

B.R.

ThinLinc is much smoother for the GUI experience over long-distance connections. Even from 2000 miles away ThinLinc provides a good experience, in our past NX can be more choppy. The ThinLinc installer is much nicer too, it’s much better at solving the dependencies on Linux systems. The built-in security in ThinLinc is a huge win, now we don’t have to deal with trying to secure/tunnel the insecure software protocols like VNC.