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[–] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (21 children)

Remote desktop working like it does in windows.

  • easy to setup and use
  • can remote into a system that has been recently rebooted. Without needing to make the user auto login and set the keychain password to be blank.
  • resolution scales to remote client interface

I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.

[–] rasensprenger@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What do you need RDP for? I did everything i ever needed to do remotely via SSH (I mean this as a genuine question, not that we shouldn't have better RDP support)

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I should be able to use my system wirelessly without having to connect it up. I was running baduk (weiqi/go) simulations on the GPU and I wanted to see live output on the board instead of staring at some SSH'd numbers

[–] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I can do anything I "need" to via ssh. But I would really like the convenience.

At work they monitor web traffic and block vpns, but they dont block ssh. So I use an ssh tunnel to rdp to my home system so I can easily look something up, navigate to the web interface of one of my self hosted apps, or get a torrent downloading at home.

[–] redd@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I dont know how to mount external drives on Bash without root privilegues. On the Desktop environment it can be done by just clicking without root password.

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