VNC is a bad choice for remote access in general. Very suboptimal.

There are options like RDP or Sunshine / Moonlight.

Last edited by Shmerl on 17 Dec 2023 at 8:38 pm UTC

yea, VNC is not excactly my favorite, but when I asked on the official forum about "what's the usual way to get a remote desktop on the steam deck" the only two people who responded said "ssh and vnc". So I was like, ok sure I'll try that to see if it's any easier to get working somehow.

but then I found out that there is no automated setup for it anyway, and if I'm going to have to create my own flatpak or something then I might as well pick something better.

It's almost like nobody has a steam deck, or at least nobody who does anything with it beyond running steam games. Most of the time I get no answer to questions, or I get a not very good answer.

Seems like people are probably using VNC because RDP is a pain to get working. xrdp has to be installed from AUR, then you have to figure out how to get the virtual framebuffer working with plasma-x11. When I try to launch it I can login to xrdp as the "display manager" but when it tries to launch anything it doesn't work. not sure if it's Xorg or what. Difficult to debug....

I think for rdp you should use freerdp. It's the best option both for client and server on Linux. Haven't heard of xrdp.

https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP

Last edited by Shmerl on 12 Jan 2024 at 8:24 pm UTC