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by jeroenhd 459 days ago
Given the CPU load I've witnessed on VNC servers, I don't think "low overhead" is right these days.

VNC was designed for remote desktop use. All the other streaming features came along later. I don't see why RDP would make for a worse choice here, other than that Windows VM integration would make for an better solution.

RDP used to be far inferior because it was proprietary Microsoft stuff with buggy open source clients and undocumented servers that kept changing stuff around. These days, open source RDP server software is actually quite solid. I don't know if Gnome/KDE leverage the partial update mechanism that makes RDP so useful on Windows (doesn't seem to seeing the performance I'm getting out of VMs), but I find RDP to be a lot more useful for interactive desktop streams than VNC.
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RossBencina 459 days ago
> I don't know if Gnome/KDE leverage the partial update mechanism

I guess that would be something for the wayland compositor to manage. Maybe a wayland compositor that is also an RDP server? or maybe they're all like that already?

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