Thin Clients for RDSH 2016
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I was actually looking for something supporting RemoteFX. At the moment (using a windows 10 station as a client) I could watch Netflix and YouTube through my RDHS session. Pretty impressive.
From a Linux or OSX client, terrible.
I was about to buy some low end SSD based desktops with Win10 installed. But I assume the newer thin clients based on Wind10 with RemoteFX support would be just as good.
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@bigbear said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
I was actually looking for something supporting RemoteFX. At the moment (using a windows 10 station as a client) I could watch Netflix and YouTube through my RDHS session. Pretty impressive.
And doesn't just about everything support it? It's just part of RDP.
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@bigbear said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
I was actually looking for something supporting RemoteFX.
The issue with RemoteFX is server side. You can't do it on any hosted platform as only Hyper-V is supported for it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
@bigbear said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
I was actually looking for something supporting RemoteFX.
The issue with RemoteFX is server side. You can't do it on any hosted platform as only Hyper-V is supported for it.
Well that is something I am going to have to immediately test out on Vultr, because I am assuming that RemoteFX is the reason for all the video streaming working so well. But I have only used it on Azure...
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@bigbear said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
From a Linux or OSX client, terrible.
Then you screwed something up, because Linux supports RemoteFX
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Linux RemoteFX support is at the RDP8 level. This is true for every Linux thin client, because they all use a tuned version of FreeRDP. The microsoft client is at version 10.
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@Francesco-Provino said in Thin Clients for RDSH 2016:
Linux RemoteFX support is at the RDP8 level. This is true for every Linux thin client, because they all use a tuned version of FreeRDP. The microsoft client is at version 10.
How much of a difference is there?
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Wikipedia says:
In Windows Server 2016 (RDP 10), the following components were added to RemoteFX.
- OpenGL 4.4 and OpenCL 1.1 API support in a virtual machine with the RemoteFX adapter
- More dedicated VRAM for the RemoteFX adapter
- Various performance improvements in transport and API implementations
RemoteFX Media Streaming replaced Multi Media Redirection (MMR). Note: MMR is now completely removed from RDP 10 given that RemoteFX Media Streaming works for all types of video content whereas MMR which just worked for some.
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@scottalanmiller I don't know if wiki report every difference between versions, but I know for sure that the last version of MS RDP client on WAN works much better than FreeRDP &co.
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Running on vultr I can stream youtube seamlessly just fine. Stunning actually.
So I am assuming there is no RemoteFX being used since Vultr is KVM and it requires Hyper-V.
Or some other changes have taken place in 2016. Its actually more responsive than the Azure VM.
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As I side note, non-Microsoft RDP clients suck so far. winterminal and thinlinx both are barely usable. Have tried to Azure and Vultr as well as a remote Win10 box. Horrible.
I have a couple HP thin clients arriving tomorrow to test out.
I am also going to give Citrix a try.
