Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
by dsp_person on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:44PM
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Hmm, fwiw I think all my boxes with NoMachine have GPUs as well, that may make a difference in the quality for encoding/decoding.
If I go full screen it's hard for me to distinguish local vs remote, even watching videos, other than occasionally can see video compression artifacts per the connection quality.
Do like that I can blank screen on login, lock screen on logout, similar to RDP, unlike xrdp and others where it's a new session when you connect, you can't resume a session locally (e.g. work half in office, half at home, same session).
Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
by magicalhippo on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:10PM
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Hmm, guess I'll have to try again. When I tried last time, a year ago or so now, the speed was comparable to VNC. The machine I tried accessing then was a i5 NUC which when used locally with KDE Neon is rather spiffy.
Resuming locally is also a must-have feature, so yeah that eliminates a lot of contenders on Linux.
Does it work as well as RDP? Not even close.
With RDP I get a near-local experience. With NoMachine, VLC, whatever else it's very, very obvious I'm working remotely.
Maybe it's my setup, but I've tried many times over many years with different hardware on both ends and internet connections.