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  • tustamidotoLinux@lemmy.world•"Best" remote desktop solution?English
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    1 year ago

    Earlier this month I tried some options. Just my personal experience as a basic user. Disclaimer: trying to connect over internet (not LAN) to a machine running Plasma Wayland. Some points I remember:

    • AnyDesk and RustDesk didn’t work.
    • xrdp has some issues like it doesn’t work if user is already logged in the physical machine when you try to connect. Also if I don’t manually logout before disconnecting from remote, my physical PC freezes, forcing me to reboot.
    • NoMachine and TeamViewer are good. I also quickly tested with X11 and performance was bad with AnyDesk and xrdp. RustDesk is in between the two pairs, closer to the good ones.
    • I couldn’t make NoMachine send audio, maybe because I use PipeWire?
    • NoMachine has better keyboard support, simple and important hotkeys like Ctrl+C didn’t work consistently for me with TeamViewer, even after searching for grab keyboard-like settings. Alt+Tab to switch active window also doesn’t work properly on TeamViewer, it’s captured by local machine instead of remote.
    • None of them were able to hide the screen (privacy mode) in the physical monitor. At least NoMachine can automatically lock the session when you disconnect.

    I ended up using NoMachine. I guess it has similar performance as connecting to a Windows machine using FreeRDP, but with some minor issues like no audio (for me this wasn’t important).

    So from my experience, I’d rank this way:

    • NoMachine > TeamViewer > RustDesk > AnyDesk > xrdp.

    Didn’t try VNC options because everyone says (from what I read) they perform poorly.