Good suggestion. Knowing it’s at least possible to get it decent enough is a big help.

Sounds promising, thanks for the suggestion. But yeah unfortunately using Microsoft RDP is basically a hard requirement, unless I can convince someone in IT to make an exception. But if it does exactly what I need I might have a case.

Not sure how? As far as Steam explains it, it only works on Steam games, which isn’t what I’m looking for. I’m not gaming on my RDP connection, and not interacting with Steam at all.

I love my (Arch) Linux setup and really want to leave Windows behind, but I do very often find myself having to boot into my backup Windows install sadly. And once I boot into Windows it’s really tough to pack up all my stuff and switch back to Linux. It’s a bit of an awkward position, and honestly it’s not really Linux’s fault, but Windows’. But I’d still love to hear any suggestions.

I still need Remote Desktop (RDP) for my work, which still runs exclusively Windows. Plus for my work I need to share a game controller over that RDP connection too, for which even on Windows the support is extremely thin, but still works and is free. On Linux my only option is to use some USB sharing software that supports both Windows and Linux and has a license of 160 dollars a year (which is crazy), or write my own (which I could do, but it’d take a while).

On Linux, Remmina and FreeRDP just seem to work worse than it does on Windows. It stutters and freezes for long periods, making it just generally unusable since I need a stable 30+ fps stream. I’m not sure if I just picked a wrong RDP replacement, but everyone seemed to recommend this. Using anything other than RDP isn’t really an option unless I can justify it heavily to someone who is more likely to see me using Linux as an impediment, and I basically can’t work with what’s available for RDP on Linux…