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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by legalcorrection on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:39AM (#31156405)
What 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.
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by rasengan on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:36PM (#31157274)
Spice [1] is better than VNC. Shells.com [2] uses this protocol.

[1] https://www.spice-space.org/index.html

[2[ https://shells.com/

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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by FpUser on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:55PM (#31158408)
Nomachine works fine for me even on relatively crappy connection.
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by derekzhouzhen on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:53AM (#31156627)
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.
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by lostapathy on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:08PM (#31156846)
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.
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by maicro on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:39PM (#31157325)
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.
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by derekzhouzhen on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:40PM (#31159599)
If it is from linux to linux, I'll use xpra https://xpra.org/
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by hedora on Monday April 25, 2022 @06:31PM (#31161652)
TigerVNC
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by koumoula on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:50AM (#31177770)
from the abcdesktopio github repository tigervnc this project uses TigerVNC release 1.12.0 it starts the command Xvnc and then websockify python to convert TCP socket as WebSocket
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Re:Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system by digitallyfree on Monday April 25, 2022 @01:10PM (#31157805)
VNC can have good performance over gig LAN using raw encoding. The issues occur when you add compression (hextile, tight, etc.) which does a good job cutting bandwidth but adds a ton of latency, which is the main reason your sessions feels slow. RDP does a great job of keeping the latency down.

Note that I have never had a good experience using noVNC (the web-based solution used by this service) even over fast LAN - I think it's because of the additional overhead of the web browser.

I personally use SPICE for VDI which performs decently over LAN, but is not as good as RDP over WAN with constrained bandwidth.

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