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"Best" remote desktop solution? (lemmy.world)
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I have two systems right next to each other. One of them doesn't have a monitor attached and it's not simple to do so. They are both on the same 1Gbps LAN.

I'm currently using FreeRDP/xRDP to remote into the other system, but the latency is just terrible. I'm able to deal with it, but in some circumstances (like if dynamic ads or videos autoplay on websites) the latency just skyrockets to a a frame very few seconds. The remote system is Kubuntu 20.04 using X.org and not Wayland. I have just about every window decoration turned off or down. And just about every setting I can find to increase performance. The connection settings are the best they can be (I've looked through so many guides and posts about increasing performance), and they have helped a bit, but it's still far from ideal.

I've even tried VNC and AnyDesk and they're both just as bad, which is odd because I've connected to my brother's system in another part of the country on many occasions, and even when he loads up a Youtube video the connection and latency is buttery smooth.

Does anyone here have any recommendations or suggestions on what I can use or do to improve the connection quality?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s TeamViewer I guess- but we use vnc at work to connect to some ancient systems and latency isn’t that bad. Do you have any other system to try on? Preferably with standard setup.

Or remote X11 perhaps? https://goteleport.com/blog/x11-forwarding/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

RustDesk is briliant. Its interface is virtually identical to TeamViewer except it is free and open source. I swear by it. You can even set up your own RustDesk server and self-host it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds exciting!! Imma give it a go

Love the anti scammer banner - excitement +1

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you know of any free to use relay servers that one can use and rely on for RustDesk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

RustDesk Server is what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I knew about RustDesk, but decided to give it a go finally. It seems really good actually, but CPU usage was at 300% of a 6 core system. And GPU encoding wasn't available as that system has a T500 Nvidia card, which doesn't support any hardware encoding despite being a Turing card.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

NVIDIA is going to be its achilles heel unfortunately.