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I worked over RDP for a couple of years. It's not terrible but it's not too good either. You pretty much have to have a wired Internet connection and there are still problems with Alt+Tab and high DPI displays.

That's a reasonable compromise from your org. Good on them. I was suffering with corporate OneDrive. Fortunately everything I do ends up in git anyway so I just turned it off and don't use it.

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I work almost daily with RDP when I'm working from home, and I have to say that most of the time I almost can't tell if I'm on the remote machine (I'm working full screen) or on the local one. Unless I'm playing a video or use a graphically-heavy application. But it is very true what a good wired connection is needed (at least 100 Mbps, with low latency ~15 ms). Tried this on a LTE connection (a few Mbps and quite some latency >150ms), and it's a pain.

OneDrive and SharePoint have been mostly ok for me… but there are real limits. They’re fine for a large number of medium sized files that you collaborate on with a handful of people. But then when you have a 100MB PowerPoint with a dozen contributors it falls over and can’t get up. I’m so annoyed they killed Slide Library…

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