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If you're dead set on a GUI for this, I guess you'd be in the minority which is why you're probably not finding a lot out there.
I think Remmina does this though, and it's solid as an RDP client otherwise.
Yeah seems like Remmina is it. Termius looks nice but the price doesn't make sense.
Surprising that not many Linux sysadmins want a central console with folders for SSH, file copy and remote desktop connections.
As everyone keeps saying...it's just not a thing that actual sysadmins or fluent users need. Using ssh configs is essentially the same thing that you're looking for, but you're just typing alias hostnames instead of clicking on them. Otherwise absolutely no difference. Not many people are connecting by IP address or anything like that.
It absolutely isn't the same, but I appreciate learning that this is how many linux admins manage their connections.
Why do you think it's not? What feature would a GUI have that's not trivial in a terminal?
I've explained this at length?
Single app with unified hierarchy for all systems sorted by work, home, client, prod, staging. Within each you can choose to use SSH or VNC or RDP or SFTP or scp. When copying files there's a side by side GUI so you can browse easily. I have done this using various apps in windows for 20 years and couldn't imagine tracking all those servers/routers/devices without a central console.
It is obviously not the same as manually making all these connections and using different apps for each of them and backing them up with git.
I mean, that's the whole unix philosophy. Rather than one big monolithic app, we use dozens of tiny ones that can all be scripted and work together. I think I'd just use an org-mode file to create the sort of centralized UI you're describing.
I've yet to find anything more efficient than opening my shell and typing
sshorscp. Remote desktop is irrelevant to me because none of the systems I administrate will ever have a GUI.EDIT: tab auto completion also makes things far, far smoother.