Give Chrome Remote Desktop a go - it's pretty convenient and I've used extensively in the past. My experience has been similar to yours - wanting to use a chea

Give Chrome Remote Desktop a go - it's pretty convenient and I've used extensively in the past. My experience has been similar to yours - wanting to use a cheap laptop when i'm out but access all my data and software on my home setup. Am pretty sure that Windows RDC and Citrix we're built by the same team and they work at the OS level - definitely the best performance at the machine level - but windows only. TBH it probably is not going to work as well as you hope due to simple latency and less-than-simple packet routing issues, over and above the capabilities of the actual software. You would probably gain more by spending some money on one decent laptop and a standby desktop - and sync'ing them with dropbox & imap. I know this is not what you asked so feel free to ignore.