omakub
Opinionated Ubuntu Setup (by basecamp)
Tiger VNC
High performance, multi-platform VNC client and server (by TigerVNC)
| omakub | Tiger VNC | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 40 | |
| 6,859 | 6,294 | |
| 7.0% | 3.0% | |
| 9.5 | 9.5 | |
| 11 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| Shell | C++ | |
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
omakub
Posts with mentions or reviews of omakub.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-12.
- DHH Presents Omarchy: Arch and Hyprland Linux Build
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I Installed Omakub Five Times So You Can Do It Just Once
The best way to understand to how get started with using Omakub is to watch the video from DHH on the Omakub website. If you prefer a text version, check out The Omakub Manual.
- Omakub – Opinionated Ubuntu Setup
- Omakub by Basecamp
- Omakub – A Developer Setup for Ubuntu
- Omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup
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DHH's dev setup for Ubuntu: Omakub
For those of you who, like me, aren't going to watch a video:
https://github.com/basecamp/omakub
- basecamp/omakub: Opinionated Ubuntu Setup
Tiger VNC
Posts with mentions or reviews of Tiger VNC.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-12.
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I Installed Omakub Five Times So You Can Do It Just Once
TigerVNC Viewer
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How to set up VNC on a headless Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu Server 24.04
Next, install the TigerVNC server and other add-ons for its operation:
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Black Screen Issues on Raspberry Pi 3 When Opening Apps via VNC
This has been around for a while and so far RealVNC does not have a fix. It's possible that something like TigerVNC [their site] may cope but I've not tried it.
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OpenHWW: Dedicated OpenBSD Laptop As Hardware Wallet
PS. OpenBSD comes with vmctl, it is a tool like Docker or Qubes VMs. You can jail Firefox inside a VM then connect to their GUI desktop via tigervnc. But I believe, it is too paranoid. Separate user and separate disk partition for Firefox is more than sufficient, given OpenBSD paranoid approach to the application address spaces.
- support-buddy for switching from windows to debian?
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VNC server with remote system's screen, keyboard and mouse locked while connected?
https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/issues/662 which still shows OPEN.
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Best opensource VNC client for MacOS?
Tried TigerVNC but I wont even connect.
- Is there anyway to turn my Surface Book 2 into a monitor for my computer?
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Running editor over vnc
Its probably a problem with your vnc server Maybe this could help.
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Install and Configure VNC on Ubuntu 20.04
Create a file called config and add one option each line if you need to give the VNC server more choices. Here's an illustration: Edit ~/.vnc/config
What are some alternatives?
When comparing omakub and Tiger VNC you can also consider the following projects:
arch-setup - bootstrapping a new laptop should be easy
x11vnc - a VNC server for real X displays