> I am struggling to find any use cases where GNOME's VNC should be preferred to RDP.
1) Teacher screen broadcasting to students. There, a shared VNC session is much easier to setup and performs better than separate RDP sessions. Additionally, encrypting e.g. 10 RDP streams comes with significant CPU strain, which is unnecessary in this use case. 2) The remote support use case. To help a remote user behind NAT, I only need to ask them to run `x11vnc -connect my-ip`. On my side, `vncviewer -listen` accepts the request for help. GNOME VNC could easily support that. But there's no `xfreerdp -listen` option in the RDP protocol. So in the RDP solution, the very frequent and significant "remote support" use case is completely ignored and we need to switch to teamviewer or anydesk instead. It's understandable though that if upstream GNOME neglects VNC, downstream Ubuntu will also do the same. And such decisions are why there's a growing list of users that can't use GNOME at all anymore... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1987159 Title: Drop VNC support from GNOME Remote Desktop in Kinetic Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in gnome-remote-desktop package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: RDP has significantly improved privacy and performance compared to VNC. I am struggling to find any use cases where GNOME's VNC should be preferred to RDP. GNOME is so far unwilling to provide full VNC options in the GNOME Settings app. The VNC feature was labeled as Legacy in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. There is value in only providing a single remote desktop method by default that works well. gnome-remote-desktop 43 by default only builds the RDP provider and so far I haven't seen complaints about that. Therefore, I think we should drop the VNC feature for Ubuntu 22.10. Otherwise, we need to: 1. enable VNC in gnome-remote-desktop 43 2. Update the VNC patch in gnome-control-center 43 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1987159/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
