VNC is not too bad now with internet connection speeds increasing. It is usable for development, but not for video/graphics in the way RDP can. I've found the

VNC is not too bad now with internet connection speeds increasing. It is usable for development, but not for video/graphics in the way RDP can. I've found the SPICE protocol using the QXL driver with some compression settings tweaks gives the best performance. The latency is better than VNC, but video/graphics intensive screens are still a problem unfortunately. I use it to connect to the console of a VM over VPN for Linux development currently.