What are Reddit's favorite Remote Desktop Apps?

Unified remote. For when the cordless mouse has run out of battery and all you want to do is play a movie without getting out pf bed. The free version is pretty minimal, with enough functionality to emulate a good track pad. The full version has all kinds of special purpose remotes like for slideshow presentation, specific media player controls , etc.

Uhh I'm not sure what details to add, but

Shell: bash
Phone: Alcatel 4044C
OS: KaiOS with arch linux in a chroot
Terminal: Guacamole running on arch

This device came with adb over usb blocked, which made everything a pain. However, qualcomm edl still worked, and I could place arbitrary binaries and add them to a start script. This let me get dropbear on the phone, from which I was able to chroot into an arch linux rootfs stored in the external SD card and start the guacamole server. After that it was just a matter of creating a KaiOS app which loads localhost:8080 and open the terminal emulator!

EDIT: video for the cynics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gze_Acba490

I'll cut to the chase, this is a stream, not a video input solution. Even so, it is low latency and great video quality compared to the common Remote Desktop apps (as long as your local network connection is good). The basis for all of this is utilizing Nvidia's GameStream protocol to stream video to the iPad which uses the Moonlight app as the client. GameStream needs a display connected on the host computer though to utilize the GPU correctly. The workaround is using a dummy HDMI dongle that you can buy for cheap online. With these materials, it makes it possible to not depend on needing a spare monitor/tv to clone the display. Sometimes I need to kick start the GameStream service on the PC with a Remote Desktop software (just to get past the login screen), but overall it's the best "iPad as a monitor" experience I've had.

For more info check out the Moonlight project, their Discord is very friendly too.

Anydesk.com ARE scammers allies, 100%. I used to work for Apple and every single scam/ransomware that happened to a Mac involved anydesk being used by scammers. That company needs to be shut down, or there needs to be international regulations making companies that provide tools be responsible for the outcome if they ignore it. Should be a giant lawsuit against anydesk for this crap. They are just as responsible as all the scammers that use them.

Scrcpy is pretty dope: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Open source and doesn't require any connection to any other server other than your own devices. Phone can be controlled via cable and WiFi.

However, it requires a few additional steps, so not sure how well it would suit you as you change ROMs often.

Save up for a decent PC, or look into subscribing to Shadow Cloud Streaming. Playing Battefront 2 with mods has been an amazing experience, this is coming from a strictly console player.

Thanks to the initial work submitted by igorinov via a pull request (https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/292), scrcpy now provides an option to record the device screen to a video file:

scrcpy --record file.mp4

The device is mirrored on the computer and can be controlled via keyboard and mouse, as usual.

If the device is rotated during recording, the recorded video is also rotated (its dimensions change). It seems to work correctly in video players (vlc, mpv and even firefox).

I had this issue far too many times with TeamViewer. The last straw was that their turn around time for this issue was over 2 weeks. I connect to my home PCs while at work and I help my family with their PCs, no commercial use.

I switched to AnyDesk and have loved it. I just wish their Address Book wasn't locked behind the Professional license. (worked around this by having a Google Sheet with the IDs for each PC I connect to.

Discovered scrcpy this week. Allows to mirror and control your Android screen on a computer. OpenSource too, works fantastically!

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Also they make Gnirehtet, to reverse tether the internet connection is a computer and use it on Android.

https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet

I've been testing this out, and while it does work (surprisingly well actually), there's still enough of a latency lag that it starts to give me motion sickness... That said, this technology is SOO close to being perfect and I can't wait until we can play flawless high-end VR games on lower-end hardware because of cloud computing + streaming...

Shadow.tech is delivery some amazing streaming technology, I hope they partner up with Virtual Desktop or maybe start offering their own solution to VR streaming. Going to be a really interesting couple of years! Can't wait!

I would be interested in a self hosted alternative too. I was researching a while ago, but no results. Till then, check out Anydesk. Some guys who left TeamViewer started this a while ago and it looks promising. Its still a german company owned by the founders, unlike TeamViewer that got bought by an UK based venture group.

Those on Windows (as well as Linux & macOS) can also do something similar via scrcpy. It basically allows you to mirror your Android screen to your device through USB or WiFi.

It isn't able to forward audio (the GitHub page suggests using sndcpy alongside it for that) & I imagine it might be inconvenient to properly play via keyboard & mouse, but I mainly use it to sometimes check on auto runs remotely while my phone is elsewhere. If your computer has a touchscreen, you could try running a few quests manually. I've done it a few times and with proper configuration, it can feel somewhat natural.

There is no light emulator, because its an emulator. It still has to open a virtual machiine and load the entire android os. Simulators are very light but only iOS has a simulator.

From experience i noticed that the emulators without google play images are the fastest. Personally i stopped using the emulator because it is too much resource heavy, i use a normal phone with https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

It's a problem because it can be discovered, non standard port or not (better port scanners will send various common protocol challenges on all public ip ports, it'll get picked up sooner or later).

At that stage, if you've ever had an account compromised that shares that password, you're gonezo. It doesn't have to be something you did, there's plenty of sites that have had their entire password database hacked and shared.

The second problem is that RDP has no sort of rate limiting (IE: fail2ban) or two factor authentication, or anything.

If you want universal access from any computer, set up apache guacamole. Once it's in place it's invaluable, and it's such a pain in the ass to set up that it's a good learning experience. And stop sharing your RDP over the internet. "You've never faced an issue" just means "You've never noticed an issue". Doesn't mean it hasn't happened.

I'm a web designer using a Chromebook nearly full time. I visit this page, https://remotedesktop.google.com/access to access a headless Windows computer (serves as my PLEX home media server) I have on a local network for the days I need to use Photoshop or a couple of other Windows-specific tools.

Is it possible to do this? Yes. However, if you actually need to use Photoshop "for real" and not just to quickly edit or reference a PSD, you're going to have a difficult time.

I use Photopea (https://www.photopea.com/) on my Chromebook for basic photo resizing, editing, and PSD access most days.

If you are traveling often, a web server with Windows might work. However, if you're at a local network, or don't mind leaving a machine on at a home, remote desktopping to your own device will be more affordable in the long run, especially if you already own a Windows machine.

I've been having a lot of fun using the Flydigi Wee 2 to emulate DS games. While it does make DS emulation a lot better, it still doesn't solve the issue of not having a fine-tipped stylus for games that need that. Using Scrcpy, I was able to mirror my phone's screen to my Surface Go and use my Surface pen as a DS stylus. It works great for drawing lines, but not so much for taps. For whatever reason, DraStic makes me tap twice before a touch is registered (other apps are just fine when mirroring). If you need a fine-tipped stylus, I would suggest one of those disc stylus that can be found on Amazon for $15 or so.

for those of you who take care of someone elderly, get them set up with chrome remote! it's free, and as long as their computer is on you can remote into it and fix any issues.

https://remotedesktop.google.com/access/

The media tour was done remotely due to COVID, but attendees weren't given a special client to download. Instead, a remote computer was running the media tour build and players controlled it through a streaming app called Parsec.

The discord notifications are unfortunately from the remote computer, likely the staff from the event who were assigned to monitor each attendee's gameplay and didn't realize their discord notifications were bleeding into recordings.

C'est la vie!

It will be, likely alpha or beta release soonish™. See the section titled: Arm support? Ohh ARM support! on the most recent blog post. It links to the twitch clip with a little more info

Check out Apache Guacamole https://guacamole.apache.org/ it's the closest thing I'm aware of to running Windows in a browser. It is a browser based rdp /vnc/ssh gateway. I use it daily and it's pretty slick.

How are you so sure that you get lower ping in other games? By looking at the ping display within those games when you run them remotely?

In your hypothetical scenario, your AWS server in Chicago that is running League will indeed have low ping to Riot's Chicago server (and it will display it as low ping in the League client) but that's just the ping from the remote machine to Riot's server. However, your actual effective latency is the one that also takes into account the time needed to send and receive data (key inputs, video) to and from the remote machine to your own PC, which won't magically defy the laws of physics. Otherwise, why stop at Chicago and just connect to Korea instead?

As others pointed out, latency through cloud gaming can't be lower than what you do locally since you add more steps to the whole process, namely video processing (need to encode the video on the remote machine, send it over the internet then your PC needs to decode it before displaying it). Look at this article for a decent summary of all this: https://shadow.tech/blog/news/roadmap-cloud-gaming-without-latency

Unless you bought into Stadia's "Negative Latency" technology, which is mostly just a marketing term for techniques which might mitigate the added lag of cloud gaming and AFAIK, wasn't fully explained by Google either.

Been using AnyDesk for quite some time and I'm happy with it. It's free for personal use and available for various platforms. Last but not least, it doesn't require registration.

Here's the link in case you want to check it out.

https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop

Unified Remote is an app that lets you remote control your computer from your phone.

My PC is opposite my bed, so I mainly use it as a media remote to pause/play netflix, adjust volume, turn PC on and off. example

If you're an Android user though, it also integrates with the Tasker app so you can automate some functions.

Like:

Turn on/off PC when I connect to home WIFI and at specific times.
Pause media / Mute PC audio when I have an incoming call from specific contact(s)

Tasker itself is also handy by itself. I have it set so my phone gets set to vibrate between 10pm to 6am as well as when in range of the cell towers close to my work, then go back to normal when I'm out of range.

Well I sadly don't know of any, but I do use a program called "Parsec" that allows me to play multiplayer with friends which technically makes every single emulator have Cross Play NetPlay.

You basically stream your PC to your friends and if they have a Controller plugged into their computer your own PC will recognize said controllers.

Definitely check it out, it's been an amazing program for me!

Check out https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy, it should be usable via desktop view.

A properly integrated solution would be preferrable of course. Perhaps you could create a light wrapper around it using this new UI framework.

It is, Apache just has a slow release cycle. They'll release updates right quick on a security vulnerability. They just don't have many vulnerabilities (which speaks well of the software).

Apache is also the same Apache that makes httpd, the most widely used web server on the planet.

> If you want to greatly reduce cheating, the server needs to only provide enough information to render what's on the screen at the moment (for example, only tell the client about players that aren't behind walls, and only give the position to the nearest pixel) and should only take action requests (such as moving directions, and not absolute positions) from the user and verify that the actions are valid itself.

First this would sound like a good solid solution until you run in issues like missing packages, the ability to maybe shoot thorugh certain objects that hide a person etc. etc. etc.
Information about picked up things etc. Also it would inflate the costs for a single server and the amount of data packages that need to be send to everyone by a lot, because you can't just send 1 Package to everyone (simplifed speaking)

Most of modern Anti Cheat systems work on a combination of detecting unwanted Software (the cheat software) and validating actions.

> You can never trust that someone else's computer is running any specific software, and even if you do, users can easily have another computer interact with the first one by taking the monitor as input and emulating a keyboard and mouse.

That's why, for example, Valorant doesn't run on Virtual Machines, not even a commercial run Shadow.tech System.

I never understood why you would want to use a product that goes through someone else's servers to remote to your desktop. Incredibly unsafe.

Just VNC or NX. If you can get NX working, use that.

Edit: Sweet, Nomachine almost has an android/iphone NX client working. https://www.nomachine.com/download

Well, presumably OP meant most games you'd purchase through something like steam won't work here.

That said /u/AlexxLepaztico02, steam in-home streaming could work, or Moonlight if you sell out to Micro$oft.

Not sure how good your internet or their internet at home, but have you heard of parsec?

So long as you got 50 mbps+ of upload and a ping under 10ms it's almost like being on your PC at home (even in 1440p). Set up Parsec on your home desktop, and then you just need to have on hand a lower powered laptop with good WiFi or Ethernet, a screen, and your mouse & keyboard and you're good. Too late to set it up as a backup for this LAN though, but an idea for the future! ;)

Answer of Shadow:

Thank you for your message!
Unfortunately at this time it is not possible to have raytracing option on your Shadow.
We will announce more details about hardware upgrades later this year. This includes upgrades to the Shadow base offer, as well as hardware you will be able to power-up with via your customer account.
As of May 20, 2021, we are sad to say that the Shadow Ultra and Infinite have been shelved as we focus on our new offering "Shadow".
If you have any other questions, feel free to go to this link: https://shadow.tech/blog/teamshadow/introducing-our-new-offer. You may find more answers here.
Thank you for your understanding and please let us know if you have any other questions.
Kind regards
Mysterio

J'ajouterais même : https://shadow.tech/fr/blog/news/nouveau-depart-en-vue-pour-shadow

Récent comme post mais à l'image d'une entreprise qui s'efforce de communiquer sans mélodrame, c'est à dire, de façon creuse.

J'ai fais parti des insiders chez Shadow, pendant longtemps et toute la durée de leur programme il y'a environ deux ans. Pour ceux qui ont pu bénéficier d'une offre de service en avance sur son temps, c'était vraiment de l'or en barre. J'ai vu des bugs monstrueux mais aussi des phases de jeu incroyablement fluides pour un service de cloud computing (et non pas de cloud gaming à 100% contrairement aux apparences).

Malheureusement, je me suis toujours dit que ça resterait dans la niche du geek avec un peu de moyens.

En espérant que la reprise des actifs puisse les faire évoluer à nouveau et que, au passage, les salariés ne finissent pas dans un trou du Pôle-Emploi.

https://shadow.tech

Oh, look what I dropped here.

It legit works if you have a decent connection and live in close enough to the data center there is a LTT video about it that is fairly accurate.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to play anomaly on maxed settings on a £400 laptop.

Probably not. Your computer has a weak processor that might work, but not well. It has onboard graphics (As far as I can tell) which won't cut it, and only 6Gb ram, where 16GB is pretty much needed, additionally you need an SSD where your computer only has an HDD. Essentially it fails at every requirement.

Now, all is not lost - Have a look at cloud computing! Shadow gaming is the most well known, but there are a few others. If you aren't familiar with the term, essentially it means you rent a virtual computer and run it through your older hardware.There are several plans, but are reasonably cheap, and if you have good internet and want to squeeze the most out of your laptop. I'll have a look at some examples and put them in an edit.

https://shadow.tech/

I got lazy, just look them up. Shadow is probably the best bet though.

A much more realistic scenario is to stream these games from a PC on the same network either via SteamLink or MoonLight (both of which can easily be installed on retropie)

You cannot prevent malicious actors from leaking photos. More than one person has pointed out that it's possible to take a picture of the screen, and actually, screenshot block can also be bypassed using something like https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

But, alternative direction; can you embed an invisible unique key into the image? A different key for every time a image is sent. Perhaps using a GAN to hide the data from the human eye, but make it maximally difficult to remove form the image. If a photo is leaked, by any method at all, a cuckoo filter could be used to verify who owns the image, who it was sent to, and when.

It doesn't prevent people from leaking photos, but that's not really possible anyway. If a leaked photo is found it makes it possible to identify that it was unwillingly leaked, and who is responsible.

High ping is a cause of lag dude. You ought to read a little about lag. Performance testing can only do so much. https://parsec.app/blog/whats-actually-causing-my-brain-to-detect-lag-in-games-73dbf4430834

Source: I'm a software developer and I use to work for an internet service provider.

Shadow PC is probably your best option. Just keep in mind that the company earlier this year went through some major financial troubles (bankruptcy), and that wait-times for having your Shadow activated can be rather long.

I've found that Apache Guacamole is quite a handy way to get at machines behind the firewall securely and from anywhere in the world. Of course you get what you pay for - there are some clipboard and file transfer caveats, but for remote machine access it's just peachy. Was easy to setup a publish point with a letsencrypt cert.

hey there i found this a while ago and i will be damned if it's not THE best piece of software i have come across.

https://parsec.app/

this software installs a tech kind of like rdp BUT it's blitz and real-time.

i game on my 2700x and 970gtx on my i7 13" laptop and i play competitive too

For remote play, yes, just add the game to Steam as a non Steam game.

For remote play together, yes with a workaround, basically you install a game that supports remote play together, and then replace that install with the install of the non steam game, and also rename the non steam games's executable to the same name as the Steam game.

Altneravitly there is Parsec for a similar function as Remote Play Together.

https://parsec.app/features

Exciting part starts at 1:58. Just demoing the functionality. Mirror a video feed from the Oculus Quest VR headset to a Nintendo Switch or, if you want, any display you dock the Switch to.

The Switch is running scrcpy while booted into L4T Ubuntu. The Quest must be in developer mode.

Not sure how many people own BOTH of these devices, but thought this might be interesting to some peole. It is especially neat that you can mirror the Quest's stereoscopic picture to the Switch, then use a Labo VR to see what the player is seeing in realtime 3D.

I want GameStop to buy a cloud based streaming platform like shadow.tech with all this cash in hand. It would fit into their biz model and they have a former Amazon/Sega CEO in Mike Fischer.

nvidia is your biggest choice

but there are smaller ones with more flexibility

https://shadow.tech/

Luna is garbage.

Stadia had a big blow when google shutdown their in house game development team. Its a signal there there was not money to be made in publishing games on its own platform.

Stadia isn't a different platform.
You can already play SC on normal cloud gaming services like Shadow, just not exclusive-store ones like Stadia/GeForce because those stores demand a massive cut of the sales.

They've said they're not working on any console version but won't rule it out if the console companies would let them do what they want (crossplay and free updates).

If you install it on your desktop you can setup something like Guacamole and connect to it to work on from the laptop. If you plan on doing it while you are at home on the same network you can rdp to it. If you want to set it up on a vm on your desktop you can setup Hyper-v and setup gpu pass through so it runs in the background and you can rdp into that.

I was itching for this update just to mess with WebRTC, naturally I woke up to an update notification and they had already pulled it. Chrome's remote desktop should work since they added a browser client remotedesktop.google.com/access.

Another vote for AnyDesk.. https://anydesk.com/remote-desktop ... Used to use TV to support family in Utah and Illinois from home here in Las Vegas. I needed a cross-platform solution as I'm on Linux and some of my family is still on Windows (shudder). When TV came out with their native version that required Ubuntu 16.04 or newer, I dumped them as all of my systems are on Ubuntu 14.04 for reasons.. I found the AnyDesk app to be lightweight and it did everything I needed it to do..

If it's anywhere close to Moonlight (which is likely), even a game like Mordhau is still very playable. I had a 6ms latency with that service from my home PC to my work.

All of them. If I get tired of clicking, I'll scroll. If I get bored of using the mouse, I'll use the keyboard, putting index finger on space bar (if it's an advance text button) and little finger on enter button.

Hell, if I get tired of both, I just plug in a controller, and use it to advance the text. Sometimes I even use my phone, with Unified Remote or Remote Touchpad.

Nucleus-Coop just start multiple instances of Skyrim Together. So, if your friends own the game just directly use it.

For stream Nucleus-Coop to your friends, instead of Steam Remote Play you can use Parsec.

Yes, i created the video and reddit post today
If you hover the mouse over the download link, you can see the file is hosted on the creators github page. Here is the full URL so you can see - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/download/v1.9/scrcpy-win64-v1.9.zip
**This method was mentioned on XDA last year - https://www.xda-developers.com/scrcpy-control-android-on-pc/
The video shows the process on Amazon firetv stick , Android box (T95Q) and finally AndroidTV (Xiaomi Mi Box S)
Lol , that is an auto generated message.

Je viens de trouver un truc super sympa
Si vous voulez glander sur votre tél, sans l'avoir dans vos mains
Vous avez scrcpy
Un programme de mirroring de votre appareil
Il faut adb d'installé et bien sur les droits admins

Awesome open source screen mirroring software scrcpy supports recording to a file. Doesn't require root, nothing needs to be installed on your phone. It only requires an adb connection through USB or wirelessly.

Yes, you are charged before activation on a preorder basis... That's how preorders work.. You are told the estimated activation time before you pay anything. You are not charged anymore until 1 month after activation. For the money problem that is for your own judgment, but Shadow promises to deliver upgrades free of charge over the lifetime of the service. For the rest, you are free to read the ToS of Shadow. And if it doesn't make sense for you, you are free to move on from this service and not bother with it, nobody is holding you here.

There are some options to pay and stream game (basically PC for rent), like https://shadow.tech. It's not an insignificant cost, but beats buying PC.

Other than that, if I was stranded without my PC... I'd invade my friends house. Or make new friends to have a house to invade.

I hope all goes well though and you get to play when the time comes! <3

Damn, it's so silly being an adult.

Exactly! We bought the 4K when it first came out and played about 3 games before realizing there wasn’t really much left to play on it. We instead continued to play games on our Wii and then bought a switch last year. I don’t think we’ve actually used the 4K in our living room in almost two years now. And TBH, I really want to pay 5-10$ for a mobile game like angry birds. Or a little more if there’s more substance like GTA. I don’t have any games on my phone at this point. It has so much potential, especially with a game vice or steel series etc.

I think the next big thing is going to be cloud gaming like shadow.tech and I wouldn’t put it past Apple to block shadow once they realize you could run anything from your iPhone with it.

Y'as un collegue au bureau qui vient de recevoir son Shadow (https://shadow.tech/) et ça marche rudement bien ! On est sur la fibre et y'as quasiment pas de lag (on arrive sans problème à jouer à battlefront par exemple).

Moi qui voulait mon monter une grosse tour, je vais me prendre ça plutôt.

Was curious on how it works. Looks like it utilizes the noVNC project with a wrapper that keeps Firefox open. I think it also wipes the user profile.

Cool stuff

Seems like a lite version of guacamole. https://guacamole.apache.org/

The best way to do this is with Google's Remote Desktop implementation https://remotedesktop.google.com/ . The client works purely in Chrome, supports touch, and will generally be less resource intensive then Android solutions like Steam or Moonlight. There is a Moonlight for Chrome, but it it's unusable on ChromeOS in my experience.

It’s free?

EDIT: https://anydesk.com/en — 100% free for personal use. You were looking at business licensing.

EDIT EDIT: Not to mention there are a million alternatives. TeamViewer? Free for personal use. RDP? Free and built into Windows. VNC.

If they haven’t replied to your email, then you can expect poor support if you have issues in the future. Check out AnyDesk. Pricing is good and has similar features.

Anydesk is something I've tested out for my home device, to access from work. It works really well, and they have a "pay and forget" plan for businesses, which is a breath of fresh air in the day of subscription models that cost more in the long run.

https://anydesk.com

there's some instructions in /r/leagueoflinux but I never got them to work. I think there was an ubuntu snap package too but I haven't tested it either.

I ended up playing on mobile and if I want to play on a bigger screen I use scrcpy

/u/willasaywhat suggested a solution for starting applications in their comment which should work. Once you have adb set up you can use <code>scrycpy</code> to get a live stream of exactly what the headset sees. It works for guardian and beat saber. You see what they see. By default this includes both eyes but you can pass an argument to crop it to just one eye for easier viewing. Note it does not include audio but if youre not using headphones the sound from the Quest is easy to hear.

For Android, you should check out https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy - no adapters necessary and performance is quite good. Have used for presenting stuff and remotely controlling my devices. For iOS I won't be able to help but I am sure that similar tools exist.

There are few things you gotta think before you go into it. Tbh I have been there; I had a Desktop which was horribly slow and here I was trying to compile C/C++ code in it. The build was so damn slow that just to build Clang LLVM took around, forget around entire day!

So starting from yours first I believe you live in India (I am from India as well) so as PabloDons mentioned, and sorry I don't think you'll be able to use shadow.tech as they don't have any servers in or near India, therefore you will be forced to Europe or Americas (and the ping will ruin your day) and second that they probably will cost you quite much as the payment itself will be according to the country that you'll select.

And now coming to EC2, AWS EC2 free tier offers a shitty machine so you'll probably want to rev up a bit to get a better one, but again you will have to look for it since EC2 is majorly for server hosting and built that way.

Finally since you're gonna be using Photoshop and JAVA I would suggest to make sure to have a good look around GPU and RAM that you're going for.

This is just consideration, I bought a new laptop for myself since compiling Cpp code in cloud was worst experience in my opinion, however if you're able to afford more CPUs that might be a better bet.

Check out this service. It basically gives you access to a cloud PC, so you could set up the server, then people would connect to it. Instead of connect through your internet.

https://shadow.tech/

There might also be a way to rent a terraria specific server. But you'd have to look for it on Google. I haven't ever checked.

> If your getting constant lag and irregular res ect 9/10 its something your doing wrong. I have a 36mb local connection and Im on ethernet and I get no lag or no blurryness.

Can we please stop replying to people having issues with "It works for me, so it's obviously a problem on your end." Yes, it might be a problem with their connection or PC, but it might also be a problem with the specific Shadow datacenter that they connect to (I remember there were several people connecting to the California datacenter who were all having the same or similar issues at one point while everyone else was fine) or it might be some programming error that makes Shadow work fine on your PC configuration but not theirs. It's fine to let people know that you aren't having an issue so they can use that information to help rule out what's going wrong, but to say that means it must be their fault is just rude and insulting.

> If your using Wifi and no ethernet, shadow on website even tell you that its not recommended using wifi and you will not get the best service possible so that's not on them.

That's not even true. From the website:

> For a great streaming experience with Shadow, all you need is a stable internet connection and a device capable of playing HD videos.

>Shadow works with all types of connections, from Fiber to DSL and even 4G LTE.

> Wired connections through Ethernet or 5 GHz Wi-Fi routers provides the best experience.

So hear me out. Check this out https://shadow.tech/usen/. It’s a Virtual Machine service. Pay a monthly fee and you get access to a computer in a data center. They are good computers with decent GPU, CPU, and RAM. It’s what I used on my shit laptop when I moved the only warning is that there is a wait time for activation cause they have to assemble and configure the machine.

Laptop won't cut it. If you search this thread though, look for something called shadow tech: https://shadow.tech/usen

1) Do you live in one of these places: https://shdw-assets.herokuapp.com/images/home_us_map_2x.png

if so continue

2) sign up for $30 with shadow tech - you are renting a remote VR capable computer. 3) get virtual desktop and steam and steam vr and elite dangerous on your remote computer from shadow 4) sideload (see FAQ on this subreddt) the virtual desktop apk to your quest 5) using many steps documented elsewhere, you'll run elite on the computer in the cloud, and it will pipe directly to your quest.

Tell me if it works and then I'll do it too :-\

Talk to your IT/Boss about the policy prohibiting you from doing this in the first place?

But if you're set on breaking company policy... Is SSH blocked? You can do a SOCKS5 proxy with ssh and fire up your browser of choice and use something like guacamole for the remoting of the GUI.

The service is very stable. I have had no issues.
I have used the AD integration as described https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ldap-auth.html . I use MySQL to hold the connection data.
Very, very simple. Basically just check the boxes.
Yes, you get logging of connection.
Read the documentation, and put a proxy in front of it, and it's golden. It runs well in Docker, which is my preferred method.

If this is a quick-and-dirty or your user count is fixed, try Apache Guacamole on top of VNC, with one-instance-per-user. No client-side software (besides a modern browser) required.

If this is a commercial or scale venture, try Citrix XenDesktop. The software sucks, but you can at least find experts, which is more than can be said in bodging together a Guacamole solution.

If you trust google you can try google remote desktop. <strong>https://remotedesktop.google.com</strong>

Using it as alternative to expensive (corporate) teamviewer for few years for some clients who prefer it and it works fine.

Google Admin Console is essential. GAM is nice but not necessary for 20 devices.

If you have to you can use https://remotedesktop.google.com/support for remote connections or support but this is not as frequently necessary as with administering Windows devices.

Bark for Schools is a free extension that allows web filtering. Others are paid products. From personal experience GoGuardian is a good option.

Just to be clear, these apps are going away from anything that's not a Chromebook.

Remote Desktop is now in beta:

https://remotedesktop.google.com/

Wonder if there'll be one for Chromebook recovery. I don't use the recovery USBs much, just reimage from the recovery screen. But suppose it wouldn't be too hard to pull a Chromebook when I need to make one.

Yes, it would be great for Epic to add more features, and they have been adding in more features. With that being said:

You can see the statistics, which is time played, on your library. If you are on the tiled view, press the 3 dots under the tile image.

There are many games with achievements already, with more to come. Epic is also developing the achievement system.

You can actually use Steamlink with non Steam games.

When it comes to remote play, I think it's better to use a system that specializes in it, which is Parsec, it is massively better then what Steam offers, and honestly, I would rather see Epic partner up with Parsec and put Parsec on their store instead.

https://parsec.app/features

Does anyone think this also includes things like Parsec (https://parsec.app) ?

Technically it's broadcasting keystrokes from a remote Laptop or PC to the main PC running WoW. But in my case it's not used for '...any means of mirroring gameplay across multiple WoW accounts'.

I just use it sometimes so I can run WoW on my old laptop when I'm on the go.

There is, kind of. A while back i used a service called shadow, which is basically just an powerfull full blown gaming pc in the cloud.

https://shadow.tech/

I also installed UE4 on this machine and it was working like a charm.

"We will announce more details about hardware upgrades later this year. This includes upgrades to the Shadow base offer, as well as hardware you will be able to power-up with via your customer account."

https://shadow.tech/en-gb/blog/teamshadow/shadow-is-evolving

It's on its way apparently. Not exactly sure when it will be added to GeForce Now. Alternatively I've used Shadow for cloud gaming on my Surface Tablet and it was fine.

Use the internet speed test on Shadow's website. Choose your state and start the test. The location of the data center will show right underneath the graph.

Total BS: You are literally downgrading US-based shadow ultra folks now to boost because you are shutting down US-based data centers as a part of your "reorganization"... in complete contradiction to your news post "Your Shadow subscription will remain fully functional, as usual. There are no impacts on the service." Source: https://shadow.tech/blog/news/a-new-beginning-in-sight-for-shadow

Your product is apparently nothing but snake oil now. I wouldn't count on retaining any good reputation with moves like this. Time to go back to building our own PC's since we clearly can't trust cloud service providers to provide their service...

I finally got my Shadow PC setup last night, and the first thing I played with was Google Earth.

Depending on where you live, this might be worth while. I was looking at parts, and for a lower end rx 580 based system, I'd be doing $800 CDN, and about $1500 CDN for the 3070 I'd love to buid. Vs. $20/CDN per month. So yeah, in 3.3 years of shadow that would be the cost of a lower end PCVR, but I'm also sure that if Shadow doesn't go bankrupt/kaput that there will be hardware upgrades for base Boost level.

Or you can try https://www.paperspace.com/

They have cloud desktops at relatively cheap options and are always accessable. Plus you can use the gaming desktops for steam. Ubuntu options available as well. Been using them since they started and I can honestly say I will never have to buy another PC again.

I'm afraid I can't offer a solution, but I can say that I have successfully used Paperspace on my Acer R11 and it runs from the browser.. Depending on what you're looking for (performance-wise), it might be a good fit? Personally, I prefer the pricing structure as well.

So, I currently don’t have a PC capable of running Star Citizen. BUT I have a 10 year old potato laptop that runs windows 10 (32bit). I found a service called Shadow, which streams a high end PC over the web (as long as you have a stable internet connection). I’ve been using it for about a week now with next to no latency.

If you have a stable internet connection I’d highly recommend it! If you like you can use my referral code to get £10 off your first month. It’s TAYKRJYY, I’ll also leave some more specs for you below.

GTX 1080 equivalent up to 4K, 12 GB RAM and 1GB Upload and Download speeds. If you want to learn more check out this below.

https://shadow.tech/usen/discover

Really wish to know if Shadow gaming (shadow.tech) is working. Last time I tried before unsubscribing from their service I couldn't get past the Windows login (shadow.tech provides a full dedicated Windows, not only a game service).

I just started using Shadow Blade Streaming on my 2015 MacBook Pro 15”. It’s fucking amazing. I don’t know what the graphics card is off hand, but I’m running games at 4K no problem. $35/mo gets you a dedicated PC (stored elsewhere) that you use through an app. The company updates the software (runs windows 10, so you can play all games) and it’s amazing. I’m playing games my laptop would never be able to handle. There is no discernible lag, though maybe a pro esports player would notice in competitive games. I’m surprised I don’t see more hype, because it’s real deal.

The service is https://shadow.tech and it's basically a GPU rental via streaming. It's a bit pricey at $35 per month but it gets you the equivalent of a dedicated 1080ti on whatever device you want to play on.

It appears to have a Linux client available. Under the right pricing and circumstances, I can see a situation where Linux users can eventually go with a service like this and ditch dual booting, VM's and wine completely.

I do data analytics with sports betting, build and host websites for clients, and have a cloud gaming PC (Shadow).

All of these can be replaced by the sonm network eventually I hope

Interesting Idea but I think that you could go even further with that and not "trust" google with your dev environment.

I mean, it is "just" an Ubuntu virtual machine that you could basically run anywhere. If you have a company server it could run there or a small machine running at home. VNC or something like that would allow you to connect to it as well but requires a program that is installed so it isn't as plugin play.

But with the use of apache guacamole you can do that all from your web browser as well.

Still an interesting read though but not everything has to be in the cloud.

Interoperability. The truth is what does Linux really have as a standard remote desktop protocol?

x2go is fine and everything but it is hardly lightweight , in fact you when use to to to run outside of a DE it is hard to get any consistently.

X-Forwarding has always been inherently insecure and protocol dumb and not at all firewall friendly. It was from a much more naive time in computers where trust was implicitly expected.

In my long and quite varied career I have used all sorts of solutions to try and get a drop in replacement for RDP sadly it just does not exist under Linux.

The closest I have come is using Guacamole to basically abstract away remote access behind a proxy server people can connect to with any modern web browser . But it still use RDP as the backend connections

My hope is that Pipewire can fill that gap and make remote desktop sharing both secure, fast and above all universal in a way we can forget about RDP once and for all.

You said you can't install anything on the work pc - can you download a binary or edit browser settings? If all of the services you're looking to access are web, you could set up a tunnel with Putty (just a download, no installation required). This way, you only need the port for SSH open.

Also have you taken a look at Guacamole: https://guacamole.apache.org/

XRDP is as it uses the same protocol as RDP that Windows uses. Worst case is you use SSH to port forward, but then at that point why not use VNC+SSH. XRDP will also let you hop to another server via VNC, or RDP.

Either VNC+SSH or XRDP will work just fine. XRDP would be best if you don't wan't someone watching what you are doing to the computer at home/work.

I use XRDP and guacamole together. A separate Guac server that can SSH into any box at home, as well as RDP into other computers. Guac can also VNC into other computers. The nice thing about this setup is that I'm not exposing SSH/RDP ports to the world. Someone created a nice script to setup a guac box: https://github.com/MysticRyuujin/guac-install

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Doesn't exist natively at the moment. You can remote play PS5 on PC and you can remote play PC on Vita through moonlight (if you have a PC with an Nvidia graphics card capable of Nvidia Gamestream), so you could possibly do:

PS5 -> PC, PC -> Vita

dunno how well it would go but it's a possibility

Two ramps to the same highway, Moonlight is just an open source solution to Nvidia's GameStream. Some people insist Moonlight works better, but to me they both work fine.

That said, moonlight has a portable version which saved me when I only had work laptops at my old overnight job.

You can use Moonlight to stream your Nvidia graphics powered PC to pretty much any device. It uses the same GameStream technology but it's much better as it's open source and more streamlined.