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		OrvalWintermute on Sept 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Clo... > RDP is pretty easy to explain: if you need a GUI, RDP is infinitely smoother than VNC or anything else the Linux ecosystem has to offer. The last time I was assessing Windows remote * for performance, VNC* implementations with a mirror driver provided far better performance than vanilla RDP.

dekhn on Sept 7, 2021 [–]

I have the complete opposite experience, but I only used RealVNC (not sure what mirror driver is). My experience is that the Windows RDP client and RDP server on any platfrom is >>> VNC in every way.

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