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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by magicalhippo on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:45PM (#24892028)
I prefer to have my cake and eat it, so I have a nice beefy desktop, and a cheaper but nice laptop from which I RDP to my desktop.
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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by drunner on Sunday October 25, 2020 @09:54PM (#24892085)
Doesn't rdp feel super laggy/artifacty?

Or are you just doing ssh work?

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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by magicalhippo on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:13AM (#24894183)
On the contrary. I've been on an island literally halfway across the world and it's been quite good. I primarily do non-SSH stuff. I surf the web, use IDEs etc.

When I'm at my cabin with 10/2 Mbps internet it's like I'm at home, except when I forget myself and start watching YouTube, then I notice the reduced quality of the video (RDP selectively encodes fast-updating regions to lowish bitrate h264 or similar).

I even do my Teams stuff over RDP, bidir sound just works without fiddling.

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Re:I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers by bald42 on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:41AM (#24893985)
People stream 4k60 with no problem from the internet but you think rdp is laggy/artifacty on a LAN? Pretty sure rdp works lossless with no problem whatsoever.
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