Linux

I've been using Rust Desk for a few months now and it's awesome. Works on Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.

It's open source and super easy to setup and configure. For limited use cases, you can just use their freely provided servers, but you can also host your own server if you want.

I've been really impressed with the connection speeds and features, it has everything I need including end-to-end encryption for all network traffic, so your remote connection is at far less risk of getting snooped.

xrdp tends to work well enough, and plays nicely with both the windows remote desktop application and various Linux clients

Do you need low latency? I use Rustdesk and moonlight/sunshine

I'm a bit inexperienced in this aspect, but:

• if you are on a trusted network (i.e. local/vpn only) you could give VNC a try. It's somewhat simple, but far from secure.
• the gnome desktop environment should offer built in RDP support, but i have not tried it yet. Also, just like VNC, i wouldn't use RDP over the open internet.

X2go is a great option.

Sometimes I use Steam Remote Play to access my personal linux desktop remotely. It's actually works pretty great and can automatically reduce stream quality to match your current bandwidth. It also has a lot less input latency than VNC or RDP, though it consumes a lot more bandwidth.

SSH or RustDesk

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but ok, yes, for actual remote desktop, VNC or RustDesk, despite RustDesk being some open-core implementation that holds the good stuff in the proprietary release. At least it was when I last checked it out.

For gaming, sunshine server and moonlight client. Zerotier or tailscale to get around firewalls.

If you were looking for a Remote Desktop program to help a customer or other user, TeamViewer worked for me on Ubuntu. It was a great way to fix an issue remotely with a Windows user.

But you may not be looking for this type of connection.

Install x2go on the client machine. You need X and SSH on the target machine. That's it, when you connect it will open a new desktop session on the server.

If you want to connect to an existing desktop session you need x2godesktopsharing installed on the target, you need to activate sharing in x2godesktopsharing, and in x2go client you need to select "session type" as "X2Go/X11 desktop sharing".

I have had some success in the past with Rustdesk, which works alright amongst all the other options I’ve tried. However, one word of caution is to temper your expectations on the performance side of things. Visually, it is nowhere near a native experience regardless of software or protocols I’ve tried.

It’s unfortunate that Parsec still doesn’t support hosting on Linux. It is the best implementation of Remote Desktops I’ve used so far, and I tried almost all of them.

It’s first-class in every metric, except it doesn’t host Linux (only as clients), sadly.

x forwarding is the way to go, i mean i remember i've run NetBeans IDE on linux, forwarded it via ssh to my windows netbook (netbook!!!, it was 2009?) to show my project to my professor at college, i remember i used Xming on Windows

I will recommend xpra, it's seamless mode is fantastic for running individual programs. Lots of other features that I haven't tested yet as well, like the Windows client. Shadow mode lets you attach to an existing session. There is also a full desktop mode that should work more similarly to VNC, but I haven't gotten it to work for me sadly.

I also use Sunshine together with Moonlight to get a bit more responsive results for remote gaming.

Haven't looked into Wayland support in terms of the remote for either, but both solutions work on my laptop with Plasma 5 Wayland session.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I use a VPN for actually accessing the remote host on the go, but on a LAN you don't need anything special.

For Linux client, I'm using Remmina with the plugin-rdp, for Linux server I'm using xrdp.

Using those you can remote desktop to/from windows to/from linux all the way you want.

nomachine works well in my experience; it's pretty straightforward to set up. And it offers nice performance. It's free (as in beer), but it is proprietary software -- they make their $$ selling enterprise features on their website.

NoMachine is what you're looking for. Full login remote desktop multiplatform solution like rdp/xrdp, but wayyy smoother.

AnyDesk, best performance I've experienced when it comes to screen sharing.

With ssh, but you will only have access to the shell