4 ms·
I gave up with all modern Remote desktop and switched back to vnc and its been working flawlessly. I use tailscale to make the vnc ports accessible to my privat
by rikafurude21 2y ago
I gave up with all modern Remote desktop and switched back to vnc and its been working flawlessly. I use tailscale to make the vnc ports accessible to my private network and I'm able to just connect via tightvnc. Remote desktop was only ever complicated because you had to open ports and make your machines accesible online, and with tailscale solving that whole mess for me its as simple as connect to this ip and its done. Thats all the paid options ever took care for you, the core functionality hasnt been changed in forever, unless i guess you care about extreme low latency which products like parsec offer.
- gabegm 2y agoI have recently switched to Rustdesk and it has worked quite well for my use case.
- iknowstuff 2y agoTailscale adds a lot of latency in my testing of Moonlight/Sunshine over it
- p_ing 2y agoWhy would you favor pushing pixels over pushing geometry?
- wheybags 2y agoOne (admittedly obscure) reason is the way rdp handles smart cards. It cancels any locally connected devices and forwards the client's instead. Which is a problem if the whole point of the machine you're connecting to is that it has a USB token attached to it with your codesigning keys on it. That one took quite a lot of swearing to figure out :p We now use this exact setup to get around that (tightvnc + tailscale)
- xfp 2y agoSelf-hosted VPNs cleanly solve the port access problem using free software. As a bonus, there's generally minimal added latency because it's just another encrypted direct TCP connection.