On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 4:29 AM Dave9060 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Nick, > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > CAD is really the only place that I've found VNC to be a preferable > > option, > > and that was sitting on a LAN using TigerVNC with some hardware GPU > > acceleration in a VDI environment. > > I'll keep this stuff in mind, but my use case might be a little more > distributed than LAN. I'll just have to try it and see, at least now I can > set up a local test that should work and I know the limitations. > > > > I think most of the data out there is anecdotal, but the sheer mass of > the > > anecdotal data is probably an indicator. It isn't as if it's just a > > sales/marketing team saying it, it's real users who've tried both and > have > > largely come down on the side of RDP. > > By no means am I disagreeing there is obviously some reason for RPD over > VNC > I've just never seen an explanation as to why and I couldn't see it myself, > so thank you for the detailed reasoning. > > LoL - I would definitely not call my reasoning "detailed", nor do I have access to any studies or research that demonstratively proves this. Like I said, anecdotal experience, both personal experience and that of others.
> > > Aside from the user experience, session management is another feature > that > > most RDP servers (including XRDP) support and VNC servers generally lack. > > > I hadn't even started to think about session management yet I was just > trying to get something up and running, so once again thank you for saving > me some headache down the line. > > There may be situations where this is not an issue and VNC works just fine, just something I've run into in the past before XRDP was a viable option, and it certainly caused me my share of frustration!
