With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).
I’ve tried Fedora, Ubuntu, PopOS, Mint, Debian - and so far out of box none of them work great. Some require large handfuls of extensions to get “normal” productivity things working and other hacks are sometimes needed just to get drivers working. I’ve yet to find any distro with a solid out of box RDP solution and so far gnome remote desktop, xrdp, and rustdesk have proven extremely lacking.
Are there any other distros worth checking out that you’d recommend and other RDP solutions? The latter is probably most key to me as I can figure out the former (in general…it’ll never be perfect, but I’ll get by).
I need to be able to access a shared local session, visually, with a resolution that adjusts to the client (not the server). Upon connection I can’t have a new session occurring or an old session first being completely logged out and it needs to be crystal clear and responsive. It seems like of the above, I can only ever check 1-2 boxes but never all of them versus windows, unfortunately.
And what hardware do you use? Bc Ubuntu has the most extwnsive device support as far as i know.
Firstly the resolution is capped at the host machines, there is no software that i know that can upscale or do magic. Responsiveness is based on internet speed in 95% of scenarios. I will look into the multiple session thing. And what exactly wasn’t working for you except RD?
Rustdesk is very good, but if it’s not for you maybe try AnyDesk. And if you are looking for a wayland compatibile RD solution, it doesn’t exist although rustdesk has an experimental support for it. (You can use x11 or xwayland on linux)