Chromebook as a Windows remote terminal

[donkmeister]

I frequently need to do little online jobs of an evening that I find frustrating to do on a phone, but want to be sociable with Mrs D hence don't want to disappear into my office to use my PC rig.

So, I was thinking tablet or Chromebook.

One of the things that interests me with the Chromebook is the cloud gaming... has anyone done similar but hosted on their own hardware? Just wondering if I could use the Chromebook to remote on to my big Windows PC without the sometimes laggy RDP /Spice /VNC offerings - games are interesting but I could do other stuff too.

[e-honda]

A while ago Microsoft killed the rdp app in the playstore so it is marked as incompatible with Chromebooks, even though it worked perfectly. Unless they have since reversed that you are stuck with non Microsoft rdp knock off clients which do not work anywhere near as well, gaming has zero chance.

[sicarumba]

The Steam Link app works well if you are on the same LAN, you can add non-Steam games to your library too but you'll have to test them as compatibility can be hit and miss.

Edit : for non-gaming stuff, Chrome's built-in remote desktop offering is fine for taking control of the PC from a Chromebook or phone. Install Chrome Remote Desktop on the PC and it runs in the background.

Edited by sicarumba on Thursday 12th October 10:01

[Corso Marche]

sicarumba said:

Edit : for non-gaming stuff, Chrome's built-in remote desktop offering is fine for taking control of the PC from a Chromebook or phone. Install Chrome Remote Desktop on the PC and it runs in the background.

Edited by sicarumba on Thursday 12th October 10:01

Yeah, Chrome Remote Desktop works fine for most normal day to day stuff, on a regular Windows User level.
But if you need admin access on the remote machine or anything like that then you'll run into issues.