Hmm, VNC would normally be the way to handle that on Linux? If you have a session going and fire up your VNC server of choice, you should be able to connect to it from another machine (I can't say I do that much personally, though I did set up a little fanless box as dashboard kiosk that way for my team a while back).

Last I checked, VNC wasn’t really comparable to RDP in terms of performance. I work in a remote session basically all day long and it’s suitable for graphics and video among everything else.

Has that changed recently?

No, it's not nearly as performant, that's for sure. I haven't used it personally, but there is Xrdp[1] which might be better for more serious usage.

1: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-xrdp-on-ubuntu-20-0...

It will create a separated session different from the local session. Basically if I used my desktop in office, and when I remote in from home, it won't show me the same windows I opened before.

My experience is that VNC won’t remote to the same session. And it can’t adjust to client resolution, so not very useful to me.

Assuming I'm understanding the ask correctly, x11vnc will attach to an existing X session in place. Dunno about adjusting resolution; not sure VNC can do that.

Serious question. Do you have to use a GUI? Windows RDP is more polished because generally the only way to interact with a server is through a GUI. Even powershell didn't move the needle that much.

On Linux, interaction is overwhelmingly through SSH. Or a client/server app.

Of course, the canonical answer to that is remote Xorg. It needs a high performance connection and X running on both sides, but it works. And the most Windows-like answer is VNC.

The context is desktop, not server. Desktop can still be used for remote, like home and office remote.

Xrdp can be configured to do this, we have it setup this way for our jump boxes.

I did google around but couldn’t get it work reliably. It seems have something with which desktop environment I use. And the performance isn’t great.

Also, I am not sure what you mean “jumpbox”, but it sounds like you don’t use the remote machine locally.

Pretty sure I had to tweak some settings in Xrdp.ini, it wasn't the default - ordinarily it would start a whole new desktop session for each connection. We use it with the stock gnome on RHEL7 but I'm pretty sure it would work the same way with any DE.

Performance seems okay for me as long as you don't use fancy backgrounds. Not as good as native windows RDP, but definitely usable.

These are secured jumpboxes in our lab/production environments we RDP (or SSH) into via the VPN, but we used to connect to them from the office LAN back in the days when we actually worked in an office.

I found it particularly difficult to remote into the same session as the one I log in locally (seating in front of the machine).

Ah okay. Yeah these are VM's running on an ESX cluster in a datacenter, I wouldn't want to sit in front of one. It'd be noisy and awkward since you can't use the desktop from an ESX console.

I had the same issue and used chrome remote desktop as a temporary measure that has worked well.

But chrome doesn’t adjust screen setup.