[yokohummer7]

It's strange nobody mentioned NX (NoMachine). When I tried it ~10 years ago, it was much faster than VNC, nearly identical to RDP. Why isn't it more popular?

[rlkf]

NX was fine in the 3.5.x series, but the client is wonkish from 4.x (and out?). X2Go is based on the same (open-source) underlaying library, and seems to be better. At least in my opinion, and maybe in others here too since nobody apparently mention NX anymore.

[zerkten]

When I tried it last year it was a pretty horrible experience because it installed client and server on Windows and macOS when I just wanted the client. I had to go in and kill some services for the server part. Having to do stuff like that for security reasons is a bit of a turn off.

The actual performance of NX was good, so I'll give them that. I think other people having licencing concerns, but I'm fine with it.

[JorgeGT]

Nowadays there is a free enterprise client that does not install a server nor does it require admin rights. For me it works quite good, close to RDP.

[stuaxo]

Sometimes I've weird experiences with OSX as the server but in general its fairly good (miles better than VNC at least)

[didibus]

Even better than NX is ThinLinc, much more reliable, faster connections and handle dynamic resolution resizing.