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I love Guacamole (the food too). I use the software pretty much every day, and have been pretty happy with it. My two main gripes are 1) it doesn't auto focus l

by kayson 3y ago

I love Guacamole (the food too). I use the software pretty much every day, and have been pretty happy with it. My two main gripes are 1) it doesn't auto focus login/password fields, and 2) if the engine can't keep up with what's displaying on the remote screen, like if a video autoplays, it introduces an enormous amount of input lag, or even drops input events altogether. It makes getting out of that situation rather difficult.

keepamovin 3y ago
These are difficult problems and perhaps the modern web has developed at a pace that older tech like RDP has not kept pace with. But Guacamole bucks that trend. Guacamole is good, and I love that it's clientles and works in the browsers, but VNC lacks sound so you need to do that separately. Also the input lag when remote frames increase in frequency is challenging. If you're looking for something lighter weight and possibly smoother and faster (albeit non-free software with a non-commercial option), check out BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox Solving input lag, and maintaining responsiveness across a range of bandwidth situations has been one of our priorities and I think we've mostly achieved. We've accomplished this through a combination of sensible heuristics for congestion control, and using WebRTC with a fallback to WebSockets when faster. We also have audio out of the box, no set up required! However there's always room to improve, which is why it makes it so exciting to work on. Depending on how close you are to a server you may encounter lag issues, too. Right now you can play with a free live demo of BrowserBox here (sorry, signup is not supported yet!): https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session Some other problems we solve that are not always so easy to configure with Guacamole (and are harder to do with an RDP layer in general), but much easier for us as we virtualize the browser itself are first class mobile support. Obviously that's an issue with remoting desktops from small form devices in general, but if a browser is all you need remotely then we got your back! :) Same time, BrowserBox will not be for everyone. It all depends on what you need. Get on touch if you are interested!
- taskforcegemini 3y ago
  rdp is one of the few solutions that works ok enough. I tried pretty much all the protocols there are and rdp was either the smoothest to work with, or had the only good client software for windows
  - keepamovin 3y ago
    I agree! It's good enough and survives. We also aim to be "good enough" at DOSYAGO/BrowserBox/CloudTabs but for a slightly different niche: rather than desktop virtualization, we do Browser virtualization and all that entails! :)

by kayson 3y ago

keepamovin 3y ago

These are difficult problems and perhaps the modern web has developed at a pace that older tech like RDP has not kept pace with. But Guacamole bucks that trend. Guacamole is good, and I love that it's clientles and works in the browsers, but VNC lacks sound so you need to do that separately. Also the input lag when remote frames increase in frequency is challenging. If you're looking for something lighter weight and possibly smoother and faster (albeit non-free software with a non-commercial option), check out BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox Solving input lag, and maintaining responsiveness across a range of bandwidth situations has been one of our priorities and I think we've mostly achieved. We've accomplished this through a combination of sensible heuristics for congestion control, and using WebRTC with a fallback to WebSockets when faster. We also have audio out of the box, no set up required! However there's always room to improve, which is why it makes it so exciting to work on. Depending on how close you are to a server you may encounter lag issues, too. Right now you can play with a free live demo of BrowserBox here (sorry, signup is not supported yet!): https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session https://browse.cloudtabs.net/signupless_session Some other problems we solve that are not always so easy to configure with Guacamole (and are harder to do with an RDP layer in general), but much easier for us as we virtualize the browser itself are first class mobile support. Obviously that's an issue with remoting desktops from small form devices in general, but if a browser is all you need remotely then we got your back! :) Same time, BrowserBox will not be for everyone. It all depends on what you need. Get on touch if you are interested!

taskforcegemini 3y ago
rdp is one of the few solutions that works ok enough. I tried pretty much all the protocols there are and rdp was either the smoothest to work with, or had the only good client software for windows
- keepamovin 3y ago
  I agree! It's good enough and survives. We also aim to be "good enough" at DOSYAGO/BrowserBox/CloudTabs but for a slightly different niche: rather than desktop virtualization, we do Browser virtualization and all that entails! :)