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		zerkten on April 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeRDP 2.0 – A Remote Desktop Protocol implementa... When I tried it last year it was a pretty horrible experience because it installed client and server on Windows and macOS when I just wanted the client. I had to go in and kill some services for the server part. Having to do stuff like that for security reasons is a bit of a turn off. The actual performance of NX was good, so I'll give them that. I think other people having licencing concerns, but I'm fine with it.

JorgeGT on April 10, 2020 | [–]

Nowadays there is a free enterprise client that does not install a server nor does it require admin rights. For me it works quite good, close to RDP.

stuaxo on April 11, 2020 | [–]

Sometimes I've weird experiences with OSX as the server but in general its fairly good (miles better than VNC at least)

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