Comment on Ask HN: What's wrong or missing in your favorite OS?parentComments−roadnottaken15yWow, thanks. I can't believe I didn't know that. I've only had a Mac for a few months.... Thanks!!!−roadnottaken15yFWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest.Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.−konad15yThe VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it.On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell.Does Windows RDP do that ? (I don't know).TightVNC works the best with low speed networks, it uses JPEG encoding too.BTW. is is also against the Windows EULA to use VNC server on it !
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Wow, thanks. I can't believe I didn't know that. I've only had a Mac for a few months.... Thanks!!!
FWIW, after trying VNC on OSX (via Linux and Win7) I have to give Microsoft credit for their RDP implementation. It kick's VNC's ass for speed and usability -- no contest.
Still, it's nice to know how to do this on Macs.
The VNC implementation on OSX is particularly poor. It crashes and I have to manually restart it.
On Linux the VNC is an X client so one can have multiple instances running each exposing with their own graphical shell.
Does Windows RDP do that ? (I don't know).
TightVNC works the best with low speed networks, it uses JPEG encoding too.
BTW. is is also against the Windows EULA to use VNC server on it !