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I use RDP-based Windows’ Remote Client Desktop utility to connect to my desktop from my laptop. It’s much faster and looks better than remote control applications like TeamViewer etc.
Out of curiosity, why is RDP better?
Thank you.
RDP is a specific protocol which allows to transmit low-level screen drawing operations. It is also aware of pixmap entities on the screen. For example it understands when an icon is drawn and caches it (typically in a lossy compressed format) on the client side.
Other software does not have this low-level access: It waits for the screen to change and then re-transmit a capture of the screen or the changed regions. Whenever the screen changes, a pixmap representation has to be transmitted. Because this is lossy compressed in general, it also looks worse.