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RDP is very well developed and an open standard. I don't have a lot good to say about Microsoft, but RDP is one of their wins. It's blazingly fast compared to any other remote desktop protocol and there's an extremely full-featured client for Linux in FreeRDP that can be used at the CLI or with one of the various wrappers for it.
If every distro just shipped and supported it for their desktops, it would make life much easier than knitting together the current underperforming patchwork of solutions for Linux.
I saw that RDP was proprietary. I know that some proprietary protocols have open source implementations, is that the case here?
There are free RDP implentataiions
I think the protocol is open, both for client and server. Microsoft's implementation is proprietary, but there are other compatible implementations, KRDC is a server implementation of the protocol that is opensource that KDE uses for Plasma. It's definitely not ready for primetime, I'm very hopeful this Redhat implementation gains traction amongst distros because Redhat has the resources to throw at it, and the ethics to opensource it.
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/10/html/10.0_release_notes/new-features-and-enhancements#new-features-and-enhancements-dynamic-programming-languages-web-and-database-servers
Looks like it's part of the move away from X. It's provided by the gnome connections app, which is GPL, so yes it's open source.
@ikidd @potentiallynotfelix It has no support for accelerated 3D graphics, spice with open-gl does this.