Remote Desktop Protocol
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“The connection is responsive enough to survive their home-to-office VPN connection.”
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“the Windows Remote Desktop over Tailscale is great”
“Windows rdp server almost never goes down”
Caveats and dissent
“The Windows Remote Desktop client has two bugs that have been driving me crazy for the better part of a decade.”
“latency was not good and reliability was not good”
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“this stuff is unnerving to have open to the net, but win ships with it active and waiting for a trigger.”
“my issue is that there's no way to make it resize the desktop like vmconnect does”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS 2 mentions
- REA Reverse – Engineer Anything 1 mention
- I refuse to let SPICE die 1 mention
- Stop Making TUIs 1 mention
- Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical 1 mention
- [H2] Enable RDP and Remote Registry on Win 10 or 11 – Risks and Considerations 1 mention
Also written as RDP, Remote Desktop, Windows RDP. Data: remote-desktop-protocol.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“The Windows Remote Desktop client has two bugs that have been driving me crazy for the better part of a decade.”
“Windows RDP-like user experience”
“The connection is responsive enough to survive their home-to-office VPN connection.”
“latency was not good and reliability was not good”
“this stuff is unnerving to have open to the net, but win ships with it active and waiting for a trigger.”
“the Windows Remote Desktop over Tailscale is great”
Didn't someone film or document a in-place upgrade process from dos all the way up to a modern version of Windows? edit: oh, here it is! https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/can-upgrade-ms-dos-6-22-windows-8-really-want-stuff-watch/
“my issue is that there's no way to make it resize the desktop like vmconnect does”
“minus the general issues you run into with Remote Desktop.”
“How many times are you going to break remote desktop again?”
“Tens of thousands of login attempts every day, all year round.”
“I use Remote Desktop so everything is accessible from every device”
“NVIDIA GameStream is way faster than RDP”
“Windows rdp server almost never goes down”