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My work setup (in my house) has been entirely based on RDP for a few years now, and I have to say it's great. I basically never physically touch my work laptop
by gregmac 4y ago
My work setup (in my house) has been entirely based on RDP for a few years now, and I have to say it's great. I basically never physically touch my work laptop unless I'm not working from within my actual office.
Two of my three monitors run fullscreen RDP to my work laptop. I run Slack and Teams on the other one (on my personal PC) because audio/video over RDP is the one thing that doesn't work well. I can even copy/paste images across.
At one point I tried using a dock. It required me to physically switch the cable as well as switch inputs on one monitor (to still connect to my PC's GPU). Though a multi-hundred-dollar KVM could have "solved" this, it was still occasionally glitchy, comparatively slow to switch, and, frankly, just not as convenient. Doing it 100% software is just better.
I wish I could get the same experience doing this to a linux or mac system. In my experience, remote macOS over VNC is a punishingly bad experience, while RDP to a system even sitting physically next to the mac (same internet/VPN/LAN connection) is entirely usable.