Not sure how the timing works, but that might be an unfortunate choice of name. Or maybe there's no real audience overlap, so it's ok.
Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system
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#12This seems like a cool concept, but I didn't try it out because the demo requires FULL READ-WRITE access to my GitHub account, its organizations, and private details! Surely reading basic user info would suffice.
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#13Is this using Guacamole for its VNC client? In college [2012] I ran Guacamole on my home server for RDP remoting into my desktop PC from a Chromebook, and the performance was excellent. Curious to see what the experience is like with more newfangled Cloud Native stuff.
Re: Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system
#14Not sure how the timing works, but that might be an unfortunate choice of name. Or maybe there's no real audience overlap, so it's ok.
Care to elaborate?
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#15What is the performance like? I’ve found that VNC is garbage even in on a fast local network, let alone over the internet. I’ve yet to find something that works anywhere close to as well as Microsoft RDP, which feels like sitting in front of a local machine as long as you don’t try watching HD video or something.
Spice [1] is better than VNC. Shells.com [2] uses this protocol.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
A good VNC client should give you responsiveness on par of RDP. VNC tunnel through web socket to a client running in a browser window may push it to the annoying zone though.
What’s a good vnc client and server that actually pulls this off? I’ve never had any luck with it either. At least not on Ubuntu.
It's a little specialist, and doesn't have Linux server/host functionality (and IIRC Mac is still in beta), but if you want to remotely connect to a Windows 10+ computer - Parsec works really well. I've used it at work to share access to a beefy desktop for running CAD (SolidWorks) and multimedia (mostly Adobe Premiere Pro/CC) software, without having to be at the computer - we use it from the local network, and from across the country, with fairly satisfying performance.
Re: Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system
#17Is this using Guacamole for its VNC client? In college [2012] I ran Guacamole on my home server for RDP remoting into my desktop PC from a Chromebook, and the performance was excellent. Curious to see what the experience is like with more newfangled Cloud Native stuff.
"abcdesktop.io = NoVNC + X11 + Docker"
It's using NoVNC.
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#18What's the advantage as with guacamole and/or spice?
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#19There are two instances of the string "deskop" in the first paragraph that should probably be "desktop".
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#20Is there any technical reason for not making it work with user / authentication when people download, configure and run their own instances?