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It's strange nobody mentioned NX (NoMachine). When I tried it ~10 years ago, it was much faster than VNC, nearly identical to RDP. Why isn't it more popular?

• zerkten 6y ago
  When I tried it last year it was a pretty horrible experience because it installed client and server on Windows and macOS when I just wanted the client. I had to go in and kill some services for the server part. Having to do stuff like that for security reasons is a bit of a turn off. The actual performance of NX was good, so I'll give them that. I think other people having licencing concerns, but I'm fine with it.
  • JorgeGT 6y ago
    Nowadays there is a free enterprise client that does not install a server nor does it require admin rights. For me it works quite good, close to RDP.
  • stuaxo 6y ago
    Sometimes I've weird experiences with OSX as the server but in general its fairly good (miles better than VNC at least)
• rlkf 6y ago
  NX was fine in the 3.5.x series, but the client is wonkish from 4.x (and out?). X2Go is based on the same (open-source) underlaying library, and seems to be better. At least in my opinion, and maybe in others here too since nobody apparently mention NX anymore.
• didibus 6y ago
  Even better than NX is ThinLinc, much more reliable, faster connections and handle dynamic resolution resizing.