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

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

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Post by algorithm_dk »

icebraining wrote: post #27
algorithm_dk wrote: post #21

Buy a Steam Link and a raspberry pi, and two usb eth adapters, create a ZeroTier network and configure the pi (openwrt) to get internet from one of the adapters and share both the internet connection and the zerotier connection over the second adapter. Configure the zerotier network on your computer and set ul Steam In-House streaming. Then you can take the pi and steam link anywhere, plug a mouse, keyboard and scree…

Do you need the Link? Couldn't you run Steam on the Pi?

Doesn't work, also the whole thing with Steam is that nvidia granted them access to their capture API

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

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Post by algorithm_dk »

algorithm_dk wrote: post #31
icebraining wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you need the Link? Couldn't you run Steam on the Pi?

Doesn't work, also the whole thing with Steam is that nvidia granted them access to their capture API

About band, the steamlink is capped at 100mbps and it still works great

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

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Post by matt_the_bass »

flarg wrote: post #23

Give Chrome Remote Desktop a go - it's pretty convenient and I've used extensively in the past. My experience has been similar to yours - wanting to use a cheap laptop when i'm out but access all my data and software on my home setup. Am pretty sure that Windows RDC and Citrix we're built by the same team and they work at the OS level - definitely the best performance at the machine level - but windows only. TBH it p…

I use CRD all the time on a LAN with great success. You barely even know it’s a Remote Desktop for basic graphics/text. Across the internet it is ok. Slight latency, but maybe it’s good enough for what you want.

IMO CRD is better than Windows Remote Desktop.

One big plus is it is super easy to use and set up.

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

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Post by matt_the_bass »

mahmoudimus wrote: post #28

I tried a ton of solutions, but the one that worked the best for me: Client: MacOSX with Microsoft Remote Desktop Server: Google Cloud Ubuntu w/ XRDP I use my mac book to microsoft remote desktop into my server with Xrdp and I use ratpoison as my wm. I can code in intellij quite well! Hope this helps

Are you saying that windows Remote Desktop client can be used with non-windows server? If so does the other way work too?

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

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Post by anilgulecha »

If you're mode dev oriented, then I would definitely recommend taking a lok at Eclipse Che, and Theia IDE.

These will allow you to use the remote machine very productively for dev work (and you'll have RDP for other things).

I have a hunch many tech sectors will move to this setup in the coming years.

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

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Post by 4lun »

I use Splashtop (https://www.splashtop.com/personal) at work (macOS) to connect to my home PC (Win10). It allows me to keep a nice divide between work and personal activities. (e.g. I don't log into personal email or Facebook on my work machine).

I've been able to watch 1080p video and even play some high end games (ones that don't require full mouse capture) from my home PC with almost no issues (the odd framedrop here and there). It blew me away the first couple of times I tried it, having come from using LogMeIn and getting rather poor performance. Having monitors set to the same resolution at home and work allows me to seamlessly run the client fullscreen and I commonly forget I'm using a remote computer.

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

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Post by neilalexander »

a2tech wrote: post #2

Remote Desktop and Citrix desktop sharing are the only really good options. Neither will deliver your macs desktop experience to you. VNC is ok and built into OS X but leaves a lot to be desired performance-wise.

The macOS VNC server seems to perform perfectly fine with macOS clients, but it performs terribly with any other VNC client. I am guessing they are using some proprietary compression or something there.

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

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Post by icebraining »

Insanity wrote: post #9

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…

I've used Paperspace (a competitor for WorkSpace) for strategy gaming on a Thinkpad X201 running Debian, and it worked fine. They don't offer 40h, but the price per hour seems cheaper ($0.07/h for their basic machine, the Air).
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