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I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 11 points 10 months ago (14 children)

If you need any help/advice feel free to ask me :)

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I've tried Fedora, Ubuntu, PopOS, Mint, Debian - and so far out of box none of them work great. Some require large handfuls of extensions to get "normal" productivity things working and other hacks are sometimes needed just to get drivers working. I've yet to find any distro with a solid out of box RDP solution and so far gnome remote desktop, xrdp, and rustdesk have proven extremely lacking.

    Are there any other distros worth checking out that you'd recommend and other RDP solutions? The latter is probably most key to me as I can figure out the former (in general...it'll never be perfect, but I'll get by).

    I need to be able to access a shared local session, visually, with a resolution that adjusts to the client (not the server). Upon connection I can't have a new session occurring or an old session first being completely logged out and it needs to be crystal clear and responsive. It seems like of the above, I can only ever check 1-2 boxes but never all of them versus windows, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Firstly the resolution is capped at the host machines, there is no software that i know that can upscale or do magic. Responsiveness is based on internet speed in 95% of scenarios. I will look into the multiple session thing. And what exactly wasn't working for you except RD?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Rustdesk is very good, but if it's not for you maybe try AnyDesk. And if you are looking for a wayland compatibile RD solution, it doesn't exist although rustdesk has an experimental support for it. (You can use x11 or xwayland on linux)

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Choose a KDE spin like Fedora KDE. Gnome isn't any fun for someone coming off of windows, it's like trying to use a bad version of MacOS.

    Are you meaning you want to access your machine remotely or use that machine for accessing others over RDP?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I want to be able to RDP into the machine from Windows or another Linux box and have the target machine be responsive and adapt to the source machine's DPI and resolution.

    I'm going over 5gbit lines so it isn't a bandwidth issue.

    Thus far...text is either blurry no matter the scaling used, the mouse and typing is sluggish, I end up with scrollbars for the display, or things like it spawns a new session and doesn't connect me to the existing one.

    I've been able to solve some of the above with config file changes and/or trying other methods like NoMachine, AnyDesk, xrdp, x11vnc, gnome remote desktop, or otherwise - but I've yet to find something that works and achieves all of it.

    One issue I think that might be at play is that my monitor is 4K and Windows recognizes that as a supported resolution but no Linux distros do. I tried forcing it with xrandr and other tweaks, but it either doesn't take or it basically kills the display entirely and I can't get it back up.

    I really want this to work, I have no real reason to use Windows other than shortcut keys which I can adapt to and the portability and usability of RDP which I'm struggling to find a useful replacement for.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Gnome and Plasma both recognize 4K, or should. So Plasma has a builtin RDP server you can enable in settings, which connects to the console session every time. I'm not sure if I would call it rock-solid, but it's not terrible for remote work, and usually it's the shit internet connection that gives me trouble.

    Using Xfreerdp client or Remmina from linux boxes seems to be as good as the RDP clients get, and I don't generally see any issue with it. If I remote into one of my boxes with the plasma RDP session enabled, I see both monitors at their running resolutions in the RDP client. I'm using Krdc as a client, but it's maybe a bit flaky as a client which is why I recommend the others.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Since this is for remoting in to the Linux box, you might have better success with VNC. TigerVNC, NeatVNC, TinyVNC are all decent, I believe. RDP is a proprietary Microsoft-specific solution. There are VNC clients for Windows too.

    There is also Xpra.

    This could be a case of XY problem.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I have a beginner question. If I install Ubuntu on my laptop in English. Will I be able to later change the language ? Or does it require a reinstallation?

    I want to install Linux on an older laptop for my parent in law. They do not speak English and I do not speak their language well.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Since you are this new of a user linux mint might be better for you... Or even Fedora because it's less resource intensive especially the Cosmic version https://fedoraproject.org/spins/cosmic

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    In addition Mint comes with it's app store which is Flatpak based unlike Ubuntu s which is Snap based, flatpak is faster and just better. (Fedora might have one too but idk never tried it) Also a very good browser for linux is Firedragon i recommend giving it a try :)

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