This comment is interesting to me but for a very different reason: the real magic I find in RDP is that the hand off when going from "local" to "remote" is seam

This comment is interesting to me but for a very different reason: the real magic I find in RDP is that the hand off when going from "local" to "remote" is seamless. On windows, without any pre-setup other then enabling the service, I can logon remotely (and it will lock the screen locally) and resume using all my apps. Then I can come back to that workstation, logon (and it'll kick off the remote session if it's there) and keep using the apps locally - and repeat over and over. And crucially: none of this harms the performance of my local session. I don't have any background daemons or special modes running, I'm not in a "virtual remote session" when working locally. It adapts resolution and screen sizes when I switch to remote consoles. Everything just works really well, whereas the same is not remotely true on Linux. The best in class - x2go (NoMachine variant) can't do this. My local session can't become a resizeable remote session, it just becomes a slow screen grab of it, and doesn't allow me to lock the remote session when I log in, or kick off the remote session when I log back on. If anyone knows how or what can get this experience to Linux, it's IMO not only something I greatly desire - it's vital.