Terminal servers and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
Unlike the Windows world, remote GUI access in the world of Linux based operating systems is relatively rare. This is just not part of the Linux wheelhouse in a self-fulfilling situation where customers do not demand it, so vendors do not specialize around it, leaving customers feeling that little is available for it and the cycle continues. But that is not to say that both terminal services and VDI (which stands for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure but is more meaningful and known simply by its acronym) options cannot or do not exist for Linux based systems, they most certainly do.
Understanding terminal services and VDI conceptually
It is not uncommon for terminal servers and VDI architectures to become intertwined, this mostly has happened because of marketing departments trying to sell VDI where it does not apply and because overlapping technologies are often used. That VDI was presented as the hot, new technology as...