Has Anyone Evaluated Windows vs Linux Desktops
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@Jason said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Has anyone tested RSAT on Wine?
Pretty sure they won't they are a windows update package and rely on too many windows features to work.
That would be my expectation. As it does not even work between Windows versions, working on Wine seems unlikely.
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We are doing this now, actually. I just stumbled on this while searching for a different desktop topic but the timing is apropos. @gjacobse and I are looking into testing Linux Mint desktops in our environment. This is only for IT people, thus far, but so far the experience has been very good as we go into the first days of trying it.
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I like your write-up on X2Go. That seems a viable replacement for RDP / Terminal Services -- even running in a VM.
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Thanks. We are starting to roll it out more and more now that the team has discovered how effective it is.
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@scottalanmiller I've been looking for a good Terminal Services equivalent on Linux for a long time. I don't know how long X2go has been around, but I'm glad you found it, lol.
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X2Go is relatively new. But NX is old. I feel like we've been using both official NoMachine NX as well as FreeNX for a decade. And 2X, who competes with NX, was a member of SpiceCorps DFW.
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@scottalanmiller I've usd the Android 2X RDP app a few times. It's not to terribly bad.
Slightly same subject... are there any X2Go clients available for Android?
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X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.
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@scottalanmiller said:
X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.
So what's the functional difference between NX and X11 forwarding?
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.
So what's the functional difference between NX and X11 forwarding?
Compression. One is an uncompressed protocol, the other is highly compressed.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.
So what's the functional difference between NX and X11 forwarding?
Compression. One is an uncompressed protocol, the other is highly compressed.
Is it more than if you use the -X with forwarding?
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@johnhooks Another is that NX will support disconnected sessions and resume them when you connect back (much like MS Terminal Services / RDSH).
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
X2Go is just NX. So any NX client would work.
So what's the functional difference between NX and X11 forwarding?
Compression. One is an uncompressed protocol, the other is highly compressed.
Is it more than if you use the -X with forwarding?
Yes, quite a lot more I believe.
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@dafyre said:
@johnhooks Another is that NX will support disconnected sessions and resume them when you connect back (much like MS Terminal Services / RDSH).
That's something I should have put together myself, but I'm too stupid to see lol.
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NX also does things like tunneling VNC and RDP too.
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On this subject, what about a linux app that will work with Windows RemoteAPP? Any recomendations?
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@brianlittlejohn said:
On this subject, what about a linux app that will work with Windows RemoteAPP? Any recomendations?
Haven't tried but how does FreeRDP work?
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@scottalanmiller I'll have to try it on my VM when I get a chance to restart my computer...Oracle Vbox is being annoying, machines won't start except for right after a reboot of the host OS. Haven't figured out where the issue is yet.
