u/Oopsiforgotmyoldacc

Windows RDP works pretty well for me, but trying to use a Linux desktop over RDP has been painfully slow.

My home internet connection isn’t great, so I often work remotely through Windows RDP. At home, I’m using an Asus ProArt monitor with a 5120×2880 resolution as my main display. With Windows, it’s totally usable: resizing windows, moving things around, and normal desktop work all feel smooth enough.

For some tasks, though, I also need a Linux desktop. I set up an Ubuntu desktop machine in a data center and configured xrdp for remote access. The connection works, but the performance is really bad. Opening or resizing windows takes several seconds, screen redraws are slow, and the whole desktop feels too laggy to use properly.

Is this just a known xrdp/Linux issue, especially with very high-resolution displays? Or would I be better off using another remote desktop for Linux instead? (I’m not very familiar with Linux)

We use SafeNet Authentication Client together with a Certsign Token USB 3.0 for signing in accounting tasks, and this is the one part of the office workflow that still feels stubbornly manual. At the moment the environment is Windows 10 Pro, and the token may be needed from several different PCs depending on who is working on that task. We have 7 computers in total in the office, so the old “just move the token to the next desk” method stopped being reasonable a while ago. We plan to move to Windows 11 Pro after October 2026, so I am also thinking about what stays practical after that transition. For anyone running something similar in bookkeeping or finance, did you solve it by locking the process to one machine, or by sharing token access more centrally?