• MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    I still don’t get why GNOME moved to RDP instead of sticking with VNC.
    Embracing Microsoft technologies to better fit offices?

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      5 months ago

      It’s a libre implementation of RDP. Regardless of who pioneered it, it’s still open-source software, and Microsoft needs to keep RDP backwards compatible so it’s unlikely they’ll break it.

      Worst case, FreeRDP can just go and do its own thing regardless of Microsoft

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        5 months ago

        I’ve used a bit xrdp and even less vnc. Can you please elaborate why is rdp better?

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          5 months ago

          VNC is a bit dated, doesn’t support auth as part of the protocol, and doesn’t functionally support a lot things like dynamic screen resizing, and things like stream transport of audio.

          Not saying RDP is necessarily better, but it is functionally faster at least, and implementations here are open source, not the closed MS version.