Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Pancho Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: gnome-remote vs vnc clients Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:41:11 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 12:41:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="01c62b15405090163e9f5f4b0f406309"; logging-data="1111229"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18xwrU2P5+XKvUoPVAIE0/Hmnj4d3aIumo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ddWORRUJLCWP1lfhSXpb9YtU3x8= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:67101 On 4/14/25 07:14, Andy Burns wrote: > Pancho wrote: > >> I'm using Ubuntu 24.10, Gnome-47, wayland. RDP works. However, I think >> this is a recent thing. So probably not applicable to you. > > Yes, I don't think Gnome 40 supports RDP, it would suit me, but I'd > rather stick with something centos'ish rather than fedora'ish. > Reading a bit, it is actually FreeRDP, which lists Gnome 42 as the first version offering support. Centos is dead, isn't it? I think you need to move to a newer distro. > Alternatively Ubuntu LTS 25.04 later this week? > Surely moving to Debian is a bigger step than a new Red Hat distro. I like my comfy slippers as much as the next old man, but even I will switch between Debian distros. >> In the past, I've used NoMachine, which I don't like as much as RDP, >> but it is useable. > > I don't see how Gnome has managed to apparently support only one > security type (18) that no VNC client supports, and not even a way of > ignoring security? Yeah, what can I say, whenever I've tried VNC, it has been shit. That's why I used TeamViewer and then NoMachine.