![]() But even with my modest home internet connection (with especially low bandwidth on the uplink), the H.264-based solutions were very usable for any application I threw at them. Using plain X forwarding, I noticed that some applications were painfully laggy, especially Eclipse and Firefox. Xpra was the preferred choice, and WinSwitch using Xpra and H.264 encoding worked best for me when I was away from home. (On the LAN, I even messed around with VirtualGL for 3D acceleration with remote applications.) I tried X2Go, TigerVNC, plain Xpra, SSH (with normal and insecure forwarding, with and without compression), NX (FreeNX on the server, but with the proprietary client alongside several open-source clients), and WinSwitch, which was some nice tooling built around Xpra. I tested a lot of stuff, both with Windows clients and with Linux clients (but I was limited to the former at school). So I played with a lot of remote access solutions for accessing my home desktop, both to do things on it that I couldn't do at school (like browse an uncensored web or using an IDE I couldn't install on the school computers) and to access my files or even running applications. ![]() Additionally, the school's computers not completely locked down, but the selection of software on them was very limited. In high school, I was a Linux hobbyist and I also had a habit of forgetting and losing documents I needed for school. I'm surprised by your account, and glad that you've given it. Other than that, software that I use occasionnally are all widgets-based and don't do GPU rendering (AFAIK): LMMS, QLC+.Īnecdotally, I tried every GPU accelerated terminal I could find and none felt as good as my trusty old urxvt The main software I work on, is too (the canvas can be rendered with Qt's GL painter but this leads to better performance only on 4K+ resolutions, on 2K Qt's software renderer is faster and has less latency in all the systems I could try, and has a way lower "idle" energy consumption as it does not particularly wake the GPU). My document-writing software is TeXStudio, also in Qt widgets. VSCode (electron, hardware-accelerated) Firefox (its own thing, hardware-accelerated) Telegram (Qt widgets, even if it does not look like it p) ![]() I've just checked my desktop and (besides a ton of terminals), I have :
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