NoMachine VS Xpra

NoMachine Reviews

1. René    

   Not important at Police force | almost 3 years ago
   René

   Working with Nomachine for a few years now. It just works. It is fast and pretty easy to setup. There are often updates and the update prices is very good also. I tried loads of other remote control tools, but Nomachine just works the best.

   🏁 Competitors: AnyDesk

   👍 Pros:    Fast|Easy setup|High quality even on slow connections|Good updating policy

   👎 Cons:    Some settings have to be made with a text editor

Xpra Reviews

NoMachine mentions (4)

• Using passthrough GPU remotely…

  I use Nomachine and it is free nomachine.com. Source: 8 months ago

• Do you guys use X11 or Wayland for gaming?

  I occasionally use NoMachine to use a GUI to run games on VPSs that don't have a GPU of any kind. NoMachine creates an X11 server on the VPS and I can then access it as a graphical desktop. You can't do that on Wayland. Source: 12 months ago

• Can I use my MacBook Air as a monitor for my pc with a HDMI?

  If you don't mind a slight latency when playing, you can use Parsec, NoMachine or Jump Desktop. Connect to your PC via Ethernet or Thunderbolt to get the lowest possible latency. Source: 12 months ago

• Are you even "supposed" to Remote Desktop to Linux? Linux RDP suggestions?

  We screwed around with various solutions, but I can't say enough great things about nomachine.com. Source: over 1 year ago

Xpra mentions (27)

• Cool but Obscure X11 Apps

  One of my favorite bits of software is Xpra [0], "screen for X". You'd run it and it would start another X server (start apps in it with `DISPLAY=:1 xterm` or whatever), and you would "attach" it to your running X server with `xpra attach`. You can attach to e.g. `ssh://hostname/:1`, so I ran a firefox instance on a homelab server and attached to it from my laptop and my desktop to not have to bother keeping... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Alternatives To X2go?

  I’ve used Xpra in the past to connect to a remote system for GUI stuff, but I almost exclusively use ssh because most of the time I don’t need to run a remote windowing system. Source: about 1 year ago

• I want to (securely) remotely access my Pop!_OS desktop from my Pop!_OS laptop - what’s the best way to do this in 2023?

  To add to this if you need to access graphical applications of an entire desktop environment you can use Xpra or MOONLIGHT (I suggest the second one if you want to game on the remote desktop or need very low latency in general), you can use both of these through a ssh tunnel (you need to enable this and X forwarding in the config) so if you setup and allow access to ssh correctly you can also use these without too... Source: about 1 year ago

• It’s 2022, what good alternatives for Remote Desktop exists for Linux that can give decent frame rates and gpu acceleration?

  Xpra.org It has hardware acceleration (h264 encoding/decoding) for high framerates. Source: over 1 year ago

• Linux NILFS file system: automatic continuous snapshots

  You might be able to do the screen recording today using Wayland ports, or nested display servers a la Xpra. https://xpra.org. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago