Oh interesting, didn’t know this about Plasma, I’ll check it out!

I want to be able to RDP into the machine from Windows or another Linux box and have the target machine be responsive and adapt to the source machine’s DPI and resolution.

I’m going over 5gbit lines so it isn’t a bandwidth issue.

Thus far…text is either blurry no matter the scaling used, the mouse and typing is sluggish, I end up with scrollbars for the display, or things like it spawns a new session and doesn’t connect me to the existing one.

I’ve been able to solve some of the above with config file changes and/or trying other methods like NoMachine, AnyDesk, xrdp, x11vnc, gnome remote desktop, or otherwise - but I’ve yet to find something that works and achieves all of it.

One issue I think that might be at play is that my monitor is 4K and Windows recognizes that as a supported resolution but no Linux distros do. I tried forcing it with xrandr and other tweaks, but it either doesn’t take or it basically kills the display entirely and I can’t get it back up.

I really want this to work, I have no real reason to use Windows other than shortcut keys which I can adapt to and the portability and usability of RDP which I’m struggling to find a useful replacement for.

I’ve tried Fedora, Ubuntu, PopOS, Mint, Debian - and so far out of box none of them work great. Some require large handfuls of extensions to get “normal” productivity things working and other hacks are sometimes needed just to get drivers working. I’ve yet to find any distro with a solid out of box RDP solution and so far gnome remote desktop, xrdp, and rustdesk have proven extremely lacking.

Are there any other distros worth checking out that you’d recommend and other RDP solutions? The latter is probably most key to me as I can figure out the former (in general…it’ll never be perfect, but I’ll get by).

I need to be able to access a shared local session, visually, with a resolution that adjusts to the client (not the server). Upon connection I can’t have a new session occurring or an old session first being completely logged out and it needs to be crystal clear and responsive. It seems like of the above, I can only ever check 1-2 boxes but never all of them versus windows, unfortunately.