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Remote desktop
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Remote desktop lags on poor connections and eats metered dataUnreviewed
20132026- Typing in remote sessions has noticeable input latency compared to local2022-05-24
- Remote desktop takes minutes to launch, drops keystrokes, and disconnects frequently2020-09-12
- Remote desktop feels laggy on poor connections and eats metered data2019-11-06
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Getting RDP to work satisfactorily on a headless Linux box was the biggest annoyance2025-07-29
- Local user can't see the session and can't shut down normally, must use the command line2025-03-21
- Noticeable latency and graphical artifacts over WAN or wifi hurt productivity2024-08-12
- Windows RDP shows color blocking, audio fuzziness and terrible lag, especially multi-monitor2024-04-12
- Windows client wouldn't update remote resolution when the connection window was resized2022-07-13
- Typing in remote sessions has noticeable input latency compared to local2022-05-24
- Remote desktop takes minutes to launch, drops keystrokes, and disconnects frequently2020-09-12
- Copy and paste between remote desktop and terminal randomly stops working, needing a workaround2020-08-08
- Remote VFX work felt poor; workstations often freeze and need on-site staff to fix2020-07-20
- Remote desktop feels laggy on poor connections and eats metered data2019-11-06
- Can't pan the desktop to reach the close button on maximized windows2013-10-17