Ask HN: Are any remote desktop solutions good enough for full-time use?

I'm thinking about having a beefy desktop computer at home and using some kind of remote desktop solution to connect to it from other places (e.g co-working spaces).

I have good bandwidth (250+ Mbit both ways) with low latency (Is there any solution that's good enough for 100% full-time use. I'm thinking about stuff like high DPI ("retina") resolutions, transfer of audio input and output and just overall good enough quality and latency to not get annoyed by it.

The computer at home is probably going to running macOS, and I would preferably have a solution where the client can be run on macOS or maybe linux.

Does anyone have experience with a solution like this?

Were Windows involved at both ends, you could start with RDP. It has many low bandwidth solutions. It uses local assets on the client to reduce data sent by the server. It's been the primary method of remotely administrating Windows servers for over 20 years. And some distros support the protocol now too.

Not really what you are asking for, but I've been working on a low powered Windows machine with just Putty-ing (SSH-ing) to my Linux desktop for quite some time now.

I pipe what Xorg stuff I need through SSH and otherwise I just work in tmux + vim.

So far only pain point has been downloading stuff via browser on Windows since I don't have sshfs or any other real-time file transfer setup between the machines, but that happens rarely enough that I've just put up with psftp

In case of Linux, the best results so far I had with X2Go using the virtual desktop mode.

More about it here: https://cepa.io/2018/08/05/building-an-ultimate-remote-linux...

For Win & Lin, NoMachine works reasonably okeyish if your link is fast enough to stream in high quality.

This is a good question!

I've been considering having a similar setup for my wife. She's a chromebook user and often needs to run software like SPSS that's exclusively to Windows.

I don't have a solution for the OP, but if anyone else is in a similar situation of needing a Windows machine every now and then this might be useful.

We went with an Amazon WorkSpace solution, they have clients for a wide range of devices (chromebook, linux, mac, windows, fire) and you get like 40 hours for free. (Not nearly enough for full-time use of course, but to run certain pieces of software it works).