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This probably doubles how much I value my Nexus 7.

wvenable 13y ago
I'm not sure what the value of this would be on a Nexus 7 -- there are plenty of remote desktop apps available for Android.
- VikingCoder 13y ago
  Chrome Remote Desktop authorizes under my Google account, which I have configured to require Two-Factor Authentication. That's nice. Plus, the machine I'm remoting talks up to Google, so I don't have to configure any firewall rules to allow incoming connections. Plus it was authored by Google, so I trust it significantly more. Already works for Remote Assistance for Windows, Mac, and Linux. And I have expectations it will work for remote control for all those platforms, soon, too. Oh, and I can have the Chrome Remote Desktop client on any PC that has Chrome. I've found that several of the "remote desktop apps available for Android" ONLY have an Android client.
  - cdash 13y ago
    This, I had actually thought about trying to set up some remote desktop for my tablet to use but decided against it as I figured it would be too much trouble but as soon as I saw this announcement I downloaded and was ready to go in no time.
  - wvenable 13y ago
    All your points are valid. But for Windows, I use the built in remote desktop feature/server and the client is pre-installed on every Windows machine. I'm at work remoting into my home machine right now. But I can also use any number of different Linux, Android, or iOS clients to connect to it. It does require two seconds to setup port forwarding and I use a dynamic DNS service. The performance of an RDP-based solution is going to be much better than this. But if you're remoting into OS X or Linux then there is no advantage.
    - VikingCoder 13y ago
      Oh, and it's been my experience that Remote Desktop sucks when you're using OpenGL. I've seen several apps go bananas when you RDP into the desktop. Maybe that's gotten better over time, but it used to suck bad.
      - wvenable 13y ago
        The problem is that technology like VNC is so slow over most connections that it's virtually useless. I'll take a random OpenGL failure over frustrating performance all the time.
    - personZ 13y ago
      RDP, courtesy of various licensed Citrix technology, is world's above so many other technologies: I can RDP to a desktop running thousands of miles away over the internet with better performance and responsiveness than VNCing to the Mac sitting 10 feet away, over a 1Gbps twisted pair. I am not exaggerating for effect, but after being spoiled by RDP, VNC is close to unusable. It is unfortunate that close to no attention is paid to this element.
      - j_s 13y ago
        Have you had opportunity to try NoMachine? I knew them as the NX people - they seem to be giving their tech away these days. https://www.nomachine.com/ https://www.nomachine.com/
        Nux 13y ago
        NX (also check X2GO, OpenNX etc) is very good and it's as fast as RDP. Much, much better than VNC.
  - gcb0 13y ago
    the worlds crazy when someone trust more a closed source application that routes data via a 3rd party then the miriad of opensource client and servers for vnc that does not include any third party nor closed source. more convenient, maybe. but more secure? give me a break.
    - VikingCoder 13y ago
      It's open source. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstructions https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstr... And I'm arguing with someone who prefers Microsoft Remote Desktop. You're right that I'm using a 3rd Party to establish my connection, so there is that.

I'm not sure what the value of this would be on a Nexus 7 -- there are plenty of remote desktop apps available for Android.

VikingCoder 13y ago
Chrome Remote Desktop authorizes under my Google account, which I have configured to require Two-Factor Authentication. That's nice. Plus, the machine I'm remoting talks up to Google, so I don't have to configure any firewall rules to allow incoming connections. Plus it was authored by Google, so I trust it significantly more. Already works for Remote Assistance for Windows, Mac, and Linux. And I have expectations it will work for remote control for all those platforms, soon, too. Oh, and I can have the Chrome Remote Desktop client on any PC that has Chrome. I've found that several of the "remote desktop apps available for Android" ONLY have an Android client.
- cdash 13y ago
  This, I had actually thought about trying to set up some remote desktop for my tablet to use but decided against it as I figured it would be too much trouble but as soon as I saw this announcement I downloaded and was ready to go in no time.
- wvenable 13y ago
  All your points are valid. But for Windows, I use the built in remote desktop feature/server and the client is pre-installed on every Windows machine. I'm at work remoting into my home machine right now. But I can also use any number of different Linux, Android, or iOS clients to connect to it. It does require two seconds to setup port forwarding and I use a dynamic DNS service. The performance of an RDP-based solution is going to be much better than this. But if you're remoting into OS X or Linux then there is no advantage.
  - VikingCoder 13y ago
    Oh, and it's been my experience that Remote Desktop sucks when you're using OpenGL. I've seen several apps go bananas when you RDP into the desktop. Maybe that's gotten better over time, but it used to suck bad.
    - wvenable 13y ago
      The problem is that technology like VNC is so slow over most connections that it's virtually useless. I'll take a random OpenGL failure over frustrating performance all the time.
  - personZ 13y ago
    RDP, courtesy of various licensed Citrix technology, is world's above so many other technologies: I can RDP to a desktop running thousands of miles away over the internet with better performance and responsiveness than VNCing to the Mac sitting 10 feet away, over a 1Gbps twisted pair. I am not exaggerating for effect, but after being spoiled by RDP, VNC is close to unusable. It is unfortunate that close to no attention is paid to this element.
    - j_s 13y ago
      Have you had opportunity to try NoMachine? I knew them as the NX people - they seem to be giving their tech away these days. https://www.nomachine.com/ https://www.nomachine.com/
      - Nux 13y ago
        NX (also check X2GO, OpenNX etc) is very good and it's as fast as RDP. Much, much better than VNC.
- gcb0 13y ago
  the worlds crazy when someone trust more a closed source application that routes data via a 3rd party then the miriad of opensource client and servers for vnc that does not include any third party nor closed source. more convenient, maybe. but more secure? give me a break.
  - VikingCoder 13y ago
    It's open source. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstructions https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromotingBuildInstr... And I'm arguing with someone who prefers Microsoft Remote Desktop. You're right that I'm using a 3rd Party to establish my connection, so there is that.