Currently I use teamviewer to "manage" my devices.
Devices include,
1. couple of android phones
2. chromebook
3. linux laptop
4. win10 laptop

Does anyone have any better (and preferably opensource) solution, such that I can have a single account running on all these devices and view desktops remotely from any device to any device?

Thx.

Linux uses a fundamentally different GUI strategy than Windows does. In Linux (XWindows/XOrg), there is actually a client/server protocol in which a
"server process" sends drawing commands to a "client process" which actually draws the screen. This makes it extremely easy to run efficient GUI sessions over a network ... even with a "headless" server that has no graphics card. (On your computer, both processes are running at the same time on the same machine, but there are still two of them.)

Windows, on the other hand, "has to schlep bitmaps around" in a much more complicated and inefficient proprietary "rdesktop" protocol.

You can install Tailscale on all these devices which creates a mesh VPN, so you can easily access them from just about anywhere. Once they are connected you can use SSH, RDP, or just about anything else the connection can handle.

There are a bunch of "vnc" based viewers / servers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...sktop_software

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The question I'd ask is "why do you need a full desktop?". Using SSH gives you the ability to do pretty much everything, and if you enable X forwarding, you can then run X applications.

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RealVNC might help you. I dont know how it would work in detail but There's a lot of VNC technologies out there which may help you.

VNC is indeed an excellent and versatile choice. Fairly efficient, too, not that this really matters anymore.

(Will continue to update)

Not free for Home use
1. https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/pricing/

Not available on all my required devices/OSes
1. https://sourceforge.net/projects/tig...stable/1.12.0/
2. https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/releases
3. https://virtualgl.org/Documentation/OSSupport
4. https://www.realvnc.com/en/
5. https://uvnc.com/downloads/ultravnc.html
6. https://www.tightvnc.com/faq.php

Totally.
And in 7 years of running a server I have never required it to have a GUI, so even -X is useless to me.
And it's possible to "manage" devices other than GNU/Linux over the command line. Makes much more sense that way.

OP has now found out that no single GUI solution will service all their devices.
I wonder if SSH can? Certainly for Chromebooks? Via Termux on Android? And is there SSH for Windows?

I have an experience with the RealVNC, It's working excellent. You can easily access devices with security.