# GNOME Remote Desktop

6 Hacker News commenters recommended GNOME Remote Desktop and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a built-in RDP server that works fine for remote logins and sessions.

## Why people recommend it

- Works as advertised (4 comments): "I've had good luck with Ubuntu 25.10's builtin remote desktop RDP server." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059527)) "It does allow opening new sessions remotely. It works fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947287)) "last I tried, worked as advertised" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45828011))
- Built-in RDP server (2 comments): "I've had good luck with Ubuntu 25.10's builtin remote desktop RDP server." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059527)) "For RDP, you've got KRDP and gnome-remote-desktop." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059626))
- Remote logins and sessions (2 comments): "providing (amongst other capabilities) a way to handle remote logins" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45926443)) "It does allow opening new sessions remotely. It works fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947287))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [RustDesk](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rustdesk.md): 32 recommend
- [Microsoft Remote Desktop](https://hackerapproved.com/p/microsoft-remote-desktop.md): 10 recommend
- [TeamViewer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/teamviewer.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GNOME Remote Desktop", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gnome-remote-desktop/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).