Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:17AM (#30056727)

> If you don't need tools that aren't available on Linux, then Linux is a really good option.

The lack of a decent[1] RDP alternative has kept me away for years.

I use KDE Neon on a NUC as a secondary PC and I've been very happy with it, but without a viable RDP alternative it's a no-go as my daily driver.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by teejmya on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:18PM (#30060691)

Have you looked into forwarding X?

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-configure-x11-forwarding-using-...

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by easton on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:28AM (#30057957)

FreeRDP is a wonderful RDP server replacement: https://www.freerdp.com/

It's so good that Microsoft uses it for WSLg.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:30AM (#30057989)

Last time I checked, FreeRDP was screen capture-based like VNC, with the associated horrible performance.

Has this been improved now?

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by easton on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:20PM (#30066133)

It seems to have much better performance than VNC for me, so I don't think it's doing the screen capture thing. Or maybe it is and it's just fast regardless.

In my experience it feels almost as good as RDP for Windows, which I think is a great achievement.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:34AM (#30069604)

Thanks, guess I'll have to try again then. Last time I tried it was definitely orders of magnitude worse than Windows RDP.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by TingPing on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:27PM (#30095833)

Every day that goes by more and more software isn't using rendering compatible with the model of rdp/x forwarding and requires full copies of buffers. The best you can do in this case is probably waypipe as it does some intelligent compression and buffer management but its a young project.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by throwaway8324 on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:40AM (#30056907)

https://remmina.org/

I use this to access/admin a large amount of windows boxes.

The keyboard shortcuts are awesome.

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Re:Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settin... by magicalhippo on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:49AM (#30057515)

Remmina is just a client, so doesn't solve the issue I mentioned.

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