browservice VS workspaces-core-images

Browservice - proxy but goes one step further and renders the page and actually only sends back a clickable image to the browser on the old machine. Almost like screensharing.

I have a [Browservice](https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice) server set up for the faster machines, which basically streams images, and a [retroproxy](https://github.com/humbertocsjr/retroproxy) service for the slower machines :)

Original iMac G3 (the very first) running Mac OS X 10.1 and Netscape 7.01. The magic comes from this program : https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

Browservice may be suitable if you have to use IE6 and you're OK using a proxy system.

"browservice" will render web pages server-side and then deliver them to your browser as an image with simple javascript.

It works in virtually all "old" browsers and can be very useful for older computers.

https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

TL;DR: Read the entirety of Readme.md (it's at the bottom of https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice). If you still have specific questions, i'll try to help.

Check out browservice; either run it on your host, or in another VM.

A 4th gen i7, the VM gets 2.3 GB, but I've done similarly stupid stuff on an AMD Athlon 64 (sluggish but usable, 720p YT dropping frames but watchable). Browservice running in a VM to serve XP's IE8 is another fun Goldbergian trick.

The copy script resides within the Core images and can be adjusted if necessary. It is visible in the workspaces-core-images Github Repo

Another option could be to let the servers just boot into webbrowser and then do somethign VDI (Vitual Desktop infrastructure), for example KASAM: https://www.kasmweb.com/ This would also address/ solve/ simplify many of the mentioned issues above.

https://www.kasmweb.com/ is a popular new solution in this space. I've played around with https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop which is based on their kasmvnc and even in the non lossless mode if feels quite snappy.

I read about Kasm Workspaces here on selfhosted and really wanted to try it out on my Ubuntu VPS. Problem is, I use Traefik for my reverse proxy and it's not technically supported by Kasm. There are also very few hits on searches for the two platforms together, and the information that's available is not very helpful. Maybe I'm the only person really interested in this 😂 but after a lot of time spent figuring it out I decided to write my own guide in case someone else is too. This assumes you already have Traefik setup and running on port 443. The files are available at my Github project.

Check out KASM - https://www.kasmweb.com/ - you can actually play many of your Steam games from it with GPU acceleration.

You could spin up something like Kasm Workspaces, Neko or Docker Webtop.

- The Workspaces Images and Workpaces Core images, are both open source projects that include the image dockerfiles and associated scripts for building the end-user containers such as Chrome , Brave, Ubuntu desktop, etc. You can view the code and licenses here: https://github.com/kasmtech/workspaces-images/blob/develop/LICENSE.md , https://github.com/kasmtech/workspaces-core-images/blob/develop/LICENSE.md

Check out https://www.kasmweb.com/. You could setup a persistent profile storage on a linux distro of your choosing and have all the bookmarks saved there or even have it open chrome directly with all your shortcuts right from the website using 2fa to protect everything.