Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
by singhrac on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:25PM
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It is really nice, I'm very sad that Apple's RDP implementations seem fragmented and difficult to use. I've tried a few times with my Mac Mini, and it just doesn't seem to work that well.
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Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
by naikrovek on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:37PM
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They use simple VNC but with some special “applesauce” that makes every non-Mac client I have ever tried break after a minute or so.
But, on a mac, when you “screen share” into another Mac (this is what they call it for some reason; you “screen share into” the remote) it is flawless and quite snappy.
Re:IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
by awakecoding on Friday March 21, 2025 @08:57PM
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If you want to connect to the built-in macOS remote desktop server, don't use a standard VNC client, use a real ARD client like Remote Desktop Manager. While the server accepts standard VNC, you will only get zlib the codec, which has very poor performance. With ARD, you get a special codec inspired by progressive JPEG, along with server-side downscaling and chroma subsampling, etc. It's actually closer to RDP RemoteFX in terms of performance: https://devolutions.net/integration-center/apple-remote-desk...