Remote Desktop Alternatives

Discussants compare and recommend existing remote desktop protocols and tools like RDP, VNC, xrdp, X2Go, and TeamViewer as alternatives or sufficient options to a newly introduced solution, often highlighting performance and Linux compatibility.

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sandGorgon Mar 22, 2011 View on HN

question - does stuff like VNC (which also works on windows) not suffice ?

witty_username Sep 28, 2016 View on HN

RDP/VNC should work for this.

girishso Oct 30, 2023 View on HN

Little confused, can this be used for Remote Desktop sharing, like VNC?

moron4hire Aug 29, 2017 View on HN

VNC and RDP work pretty great without it.

therealidiot May 21, 2016 View on HN

There is an RDP implementation called xrdp - it's not too bad

pjmlp Mar 15, 2022 View on HN

X Windows and RDP/VNC, it is nothing new.

mtmmtm May 8, 2021 View on HN

It uses RDP (much faster than VNC).

whitefang Apr 11, 2024 View on HN

RDP built into windows should work well?

dekhn Jul 3, 2019 View on HN

personally I found xrdp server w/ RDP client works great.

pnutjam Oct 23, 2019 View on HN

I have a remote work environment using x2go. It's as good or better then rdp.