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VirtualBox (a free Virtual Machine) has RDP built in (you can enable it even if the guest operating system doesn't support it because it is done on a VM level).

I've never tried it but I wonder what performance you would see by trying to do all your work over RDP to a VirtualBox machine sitting on a headless server somewhere.

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I've had more luck (i.e. more usable performance) with the NoMachine remote desktop product (basically X11 forwarding).

For a while I was also using GNU Screen over SSH too.

setting up nomachine is a real hassle though, for some reason they feel it nessisary to completely replicate the linux login infrastructure, aswell as mantaining a whole heap of paralell dependencies (that needs separate configuring, including a version of x11 from 2005 that causes some real headaches) for no apparent reason.

Why cant it just be an x11 proxy rather than an x11 proxy plus an entire authorization infrastructure?

I guess you wanted to setup an enterprise authentication scheme?

For a simple desktop usage all I did was installing the deb package on the server and it was ready to go. I just entered my ssh details on the client and done, remote desktop at my fingertips. no manual setup, no external authorization, no dependency hell.

I used NoMachine NX about 12 years ago, it was so much faster than VNC, and X11 Forwarding. Great to see it's still kicking.

Thank you. I'll have to give NoMachine a look.

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