There're a couple of huge downsides (for me personally) to streaming services that just grinds with me:
- the quality is always worse than physical media, and
- scrobbing (moving back and forwards in the video, with the arrow keys or by moving the playback head) is almost never instantaneous, it usually requires a couple of seconds while the video rebuffers
Perhaps physical media is better these days (than DVDs were) for scrobbing, but then you have the FBI piracy messages to deal with. I've never owned a BluRay player, perhaps they're better?
But I know that sailing the high seas gets me a high-quality video, and I can jump backwards ~5 seconds instantaneously when I've not heard a bit a of dialogue.
You should replace 'You...'' in your response with 'From an ideal security standpoint one...'.
OP obviously does want to RDP to their machine, they stated as such. For most people, accessing a desktop-class machine from a mobile device isn't a significant issue.
It's this kind of gatekeeping that keeps newcomers away from Linux.