Understood, but it’s dead simple to set up if you’re able to copy, paste, and execute a small number of commands (once!)… after which, you won’t even need a separate app; things will just happen when you click your bookmarked devices.
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It may be dead simple for those that play in that arena. I already looked in to it before.
The first line doesn’t work on Windows.
On your computer (the client):
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
But I went off-topic here. Apologies to all,
~s
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Ah, right… I don’t know how to do it on Windows. But you could start a new thread to get help on incorporating a Windows machine into your setup.
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I find this to be a flawed perspective. If someone is already not comfortable in the terminal, theyre not likely to be equipped to properly vett what they are being told to copy/paste, thus leading them to copy/paste commands from the internet and treating that advice as a good thing is something I strongly disagree with. This sets people up to be exploited by people who post exploitative commands/scripts online to be copy/pasted.
It may be simple, but that doesn’t mean it’s advisable and doesn’t mean it is a good stopgap.
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FWIW, on windows 10/11 those steps can be skipped as the OpenSSH client is already installed.
These steps are skippable on windows:
On your computer (the client): sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Then:
sudo apt install openssh-client
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Fair enough. It’s always advisable to investigate before blindly following advice on the internet.
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On the other hand, downloading and installing a proprietary, commercial app isn’t guaranteed to be safe, either. 
EDIT: BTW, I’m not implying that Sharon, or anybody else here, would be careless in this regard. Just speaking in generalities.
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Try FileZilla. It has sftp support and gives you a GUI. Should be available on Windows too i.e. Windows can be a client, just as Linux can be a client.
Then all you need to do is start an SSH server on one of your Linux boxes (for which a tutorial exists in this forum, not that it is complex).
The alternative is sshfs which would allow you to use your regular Linux file explorer as the client. However that is a) Linux only and b) does require one command to be executed on the client side.
Edit: PS Either of these is secure enough to use over the internet but
- you will have problems with firewalls and NAT and …
- you will need to have strong passwords
so I am sort of assuming local LAN only.
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My bad for not being more clear. I would be, but my goal is somewhat complicated. With that in mind, I’ve been looking in to possibilities, and what KDE Connect might do.
My ultimate goal would be to remote connect from one to the other, either my multi-boot Linux box (with PureOS, PopOS, and Ubuntu - I dropped 2 others) and my Windows box.
SSH is next resort if KDE doesn’t like my setup.
Yes - is just for LAN. The 'net remote is asking too much 
~s
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Last time I had to do it, which admittedly was a long time ago, remmina is what you want for remote log in from Linux into a Windows box. I believe that the transport security is adequate for sending traffic on the internet (noting that you said that you didn’t need that anyway).
For Linux to Linux, any VNC implementation should work - but I believe it does not encrypt traffic by default so strictly local LAN unless you e.g. send it through an SSH tunnel (noting same).
These won’t necessarily work from the Librem 5. So let’s assume for the moment that the source computer is a laptop / desktop.
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Laptop ⇿ desktop ⇿ L5
All cabled to modem/router (bridging to choose my own DNS server) but all over the LAN.
As mentioned, I will be trying out KDE, because as I understand it, KDE apparently can connect Win to Linux and vice versa. But right now, the loss of almost 2 TB of data needs restoring 
~s
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If you want to move 2TB of data then sneakernet is your friend.
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That’s how I always do it. I use Teracopy. I find it’s about 4 times faster than copy & paste. Very friendly. Did I say it’s fast? It is.
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