[TriLUG] Opinion Seeking: Remote Linux Desktops

[Steve Litt via TriLUG]

GUI over tunneled ssh over the Internet can be pretty slow, right?

On Mon, 22 Feb 2016 10:04:36 -0500
Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> VNC is how I do it but when outside the house, only over a tunneled
> SSH connection.
> 
> Ken
> 
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Brian Henning via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:  
> 
> > Hi Gang,
> >
> > I'm getting closer and closer to having my primary home workstation
> > spend most of its time running Linux.  One thing I have yet to
> > really nail down is remote desktop.  When it's running Windows, I
> > connect to the machine via RDP quite frequently, so I'll need the
> > same functionality with hopefully comparable (if not better)
> > performance.  Is VNC still the mechanism of choice for Linux remote
> > desktops?  Recently I tried out NoMachine, which seemed cool, but
> > isn't libre.  As far as remote X, I've never once seen it
> > outperform RDP, so it's pretty much not in the running.  Thoughts?
> >
> > -B