On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 7:41 PM Paul Azad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The speed of VNC is the issue. The refresh rate, and therefor the > usability is much slower then RDP. Microsoft have done an awesome job of > the protocol behind RDP, wish that someone would create remote connection > application (host end) for Windows that runs the RDP protocol. Not sure why > this hasnt been done yet though, as the protocol is openly documented by > Microsoft... If i knew any developers that could do this - i would fund it. >
It is true that VNC performance can be problematic, and that RDP seems to be more efficient at it. However, if you put your guacd server (and, possibly, your Guacamole Client server) close to the remote end, then you should get decent performance - Guacamole itself does a very good job of making the display of protocols like VNC more efficient over lower-bandwidth, higher-latency links where they've tended to be problematic in the past. VNC does still lack support for some other things that RDP has built-in - like audio redirection and file and printer redirection - so I'm not saying it's a 1-for-1 trade. But some of those items can be worked around (Guacamole support audio redirection on VNC with PulseAudio, for example), and, depending on your application, it may work fine. -Nick >
