I happen to agree with NoMachine, specially because it actually supports transporting X rendering commands, which is still miles better than transferring video

I happen to agree with NoMachine, specially because it actually supports transporting X rendering commands, which is still miles better than transferring video (and you can have e.g. 8K resolutions without requiring a server farm for encoding). I also like that they allow rootless mode (i.e. without the desktop), which can of solves the problem of "local browser, remote desktop" that TFA is complaining about. Local windows are practically indistinguishable from remote ones. Many of this also applies to X2Go/FreeNX, albeit it seems to be a bit more regression-prone.