(OP seems to be a client AFAICT?) Given Microsoft's recent investment in Linux, maybe this will happen soon?Ī number of reasons actually. I really wish there was something like RDP as a server for Linux. I connect to RDP servers in Azure all the time and sometimes forget I'm not working locally, while with VNC you're always aware that it's not as performant. This, combined with compression, helps make RDP feel very fast compared to VNC, and can be used very well even over the internet, unlike X11. Think sending a "draw button" command rather than sending an image of pixels that are how the button would be rendered. RDP is closer to X11 in that it sends display directives (AFAIK, please correct me if I'm wrong) so that it can draw them on the client as they would be drawn on the server. This makes it very cross platform friendly, but also IMO feels very slow, even on a local network. VNC is basically a remote frame buffer, akin to streaming video. However, as far as the actual implementation goes, RDP is closer to X11 than VNC. In that respect only though: you can't also simultaneously use the same session locally unlike with VNC. I'm not sure what is so hard to get right to also get something equivalent on Linux, so maybe it's really the lack of interest?Īs far as connecting to existing sessions goes, yes, RDP is closer to VNC to X11. RDP does that for me, on the same level SSH/Mosh does that for terminal stuff. Unfortunately the OP is about right (in my experience, for the things I do): if the connection allows it remote desktop should really be like you're sitting in front of the physical machine. Which also has problems but at least it allows me to do work. But I never got to trying that, went back to VNC. not one big screen, it's not 2000 anymore), drive/audio/. To get on par with RDP it should also do multiple screens properly (i.e. Not sure if I did anything wrong or just had bad luck. At least a crash a day, couldn't get numeric keypad keys to work, slow. I tried X2Go a couple of times on multiple machines (always logging in from Windows to Unbuntu 18.04 if that matters, on a local network) and it was horrible. More or less on par with MS-RDP on Windows
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