Seconded on Mint. Only actual distro that doesn't look like garbage.
(modern) Gnome UI is actually retarded for a desktop/laptop and KDE still looks chintzy.
I went with the other choice, Windows 10 IoT 2022 edition that has support until 2032 and none of the ads or AI. Massgrave (github.com/massgravel) to permanently activate it. Mostly because remote desktop is dog shit in linux.
My home media server is running linux, and it is set up to use RDP as I would remote into it with mstsc.
After the swap to Mint, I found the Remmina client to do the same job, still using RDP. I know there are other native linux solutions, but RDP was already set up on the server and Remmina has just kind of dropped in to replace mstsc for me.
Not a heavy use, but probably worth investigating next time you need a remote desktop client on a linux box.
Is it using hardware codecs? If not then it's useless.
On Windows I remote into my desktop from a laptop and get 60+ fps full screen even with a 10 year old Intel-graphics laptop that was $200 at the time. Every window open and DPI adjusted for the laptop.
Can't imagine open programs can resize for DPI in X11, maybe in Wayland.
Mac recently got hardware remote desktop, I think the holdup was UI scaling since they couldn't even get that working ok between multiple monitors with different DPI.
Seconded on Mint. Only actual distro that doesn't look like garbage.
(modern) Gnome UI is actually retarded for a desktop/laptop and KDE still looks chintzy.
I went with the other choice, Windows 10 IoT 2022 edition that has support until 2032 and none of the ads or AI. Massgrave (github.com/massgravel) to permanently activate it. Mostly because remote desktop is dog shit in linux.
My home media server is running linux, and it is set up to use RDP as I would remote into it with mstsc.
After the swap to Mint, I found the Remmina client to do the same job, still using RDP. I know there are other native linux solutions, but RDP was already set up on the server and Remmina has just kind of dropped in to replace mstsc for me.
Not a heavy use, but probably worth investigating next time you need a remote desktop client on a linux box.
Is it using hardware codecs? If not then it's useless.
On Windows I remote into my desktop from a laptop and get 60+ fps full screen even with a 10 year old Intel-graphics laptop that was $200 at the time. Every window open and DPI adjusted for the laptop.
Yes to hardware encoding, but only on wayland. I'm still on Mint 22.1, so no wayland, and no hardware acceleration for me with Remmina.
I'll have to check it out in a year or so.
Can't imagine open programs can resize for DPI in X11, maybe in Wayland.
Mac recently got hardware remote desktop, I think the holdup was UI scaling since they couldn't even get that working ok between multiple monitors with different DPI.