How’s the experience of working on it? I’ve been struggling to get a decent remote setup even in my home lab due to network latency. Could be because I’m trying to drive 4K. Even Win10 RDP over a 1300mbps network struggles. I wonder if I need to bite the bullet and install a real graphics card in the R720.

Would love to hear more experiences of others who remote this way where you are “offloading” your compute power elsewhere.

You could try solutions oriented toward gaming like Parsec or Nvidia Gamestream with Moonlight. They use hardware acceleration for video encoding and may have better latency than RDP.

https://parsec.app/

https://moonlight-stream.org/

Don't these and Stadia use RDP under the hood?

Afaik for both Parsec and Moonlight the video is a capture of the screen encoded in h264 or h265 and streamed to the remote client. They may be based on RDP for input but I don't think that's the case.

Moonlight is open-source, you can see in the code yourself as I don't understand most of it. There is also a project that attempt to replace the associated Nvidia Gamestream server but it is quite basic and no longer maintained : https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine