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.

I avoid it at all costs as no solution is really seamless, but NoMachine gave me the best (perceived) latency out of VNC, TeamViewer, and a couple others I tried a couple years ago. It's also cross platform, but if the machines are in different networks (behind a NAT), you'll likely need to configure port forwarding manually or via their GUI.

edit: I just remembered I even played youtube videos and the transport fever 2 game via NX (NoMachine) for a few hours and it worked well, while other protocols had either too much of a degraded quality or latency.

I use this script to deploy xrdp. Works well for local stuff or over vpn / ssh tunnel and plays nice with rdp

https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=19228

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

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.

I'll add to the mix, if it's Gnome DE, rdp is built in now, it's under settings > sharing > enable rdp. Then you can use any rdp client, including windows. (Or remmina if from another Linux box)

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

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

X2go is a great option.

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https://cockpit-project.org/

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.

The best way used to be XPRA. You can also tunnel it thru SSH, but not necessary in a trusted LAN. XPRA is like a per application display proxy that keeps an app running even if the connection is interrupted and enables reconnects as well as transfers of Xclient windows to other Xservers, i.e. you can transfer the remote window from your notebook to your workstation Xserver whithout having to restart the app.

vnc works on windows on linux

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.

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

Anydesk for wayland machines.

I would use Remmina VNC.

Meshcentral, or Moonlight if I just need to connect from my phone real quick for something.