Originally posted by suokko
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Using Remote Desktop on a local machine from a VM side by side with a full screen Gnome session running over SSH encryption over a corporate network to a machine in a different building... The Gnome desktop not only had much better performance and response, but looked a hell of a lot better.
And when it comes to running desktops over high-latency, low-bandwidth internet links nothing holds a candle to NX, which is just X Windows with extra techniques to reduce round trips and can use high compression for bitmaps.
So... whatever.
I'll take X terminals over Rdesktop or Cytrix any day of the week.
The trick for dealing with Firefox/Flash and other large animations is to run that crap on your local machine, which is easy to do with some ssh/scripting trickery. This is how you can run graphics intensive programs on a X Terminal. And due to the nature of X you can just do one application remotely/locally without having to dedicate a entire desktop to it.
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Also if you want to improve performance over SSH go and create a ~/.ssh/config and disable compression. If you want then also change the encryption method to something less heavy then the defaults.. like arcfour or blowfish. By default X uses AES-128, with the fallback to TripleDES.
See 'man ssh_config' for details. It's easy to set per-host settings and set up aliases for specific purposes.
Of course for best performance you don't use SSH encryption at all, but it's a nice thing to have.
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