<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dmd</author><text>NoMachine absolutely does do remote applications. I use it for that every day. Instead of &amp;quot;Create a new virtual desktop&amp;quot;, choose &amp;quot;Create a new custom session&amp;quot; and under Application &amp;quot;Run the following command&amp;quot; (the program you want to run) and under Options &amp;quot;Run the command in a floating window&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I tried Xpra for remote applications some four to five years ago when I migrated from Windows to Linux and needed a Remote Desktop (type) alternative.&lt;p&gt;I stuck with it for a while in advance of numerous other options, until I found NoMachine - which doesn&amp;#x27;t do remote applications but does do full remote desktop and has the closest &amp;#x27;feel&amp;#x27; to being local-machine than anything other than Windows Remote Desktop.&lt;p&gt;I (ironically?) dislike Microsoft just that little bit extra for making Remote Desktop so damn good whilst progressively destroying the Windows experience.&lt;p&gt;I would like to try Xpra again, but I&amp;#x27;ve got a growing list of &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d like to try that&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot; that even the top priorities only get small bites taken out of them per week &amp;#x2F; month - and my current workflow is pretty good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11</title><url>https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>yaantc</author><text>You may want to try x2go. It uses the older NX protocol version 3, while NoMachine is at version 4. It&amp;#x27;s good enough for my use case, and support remote applications just fine: this is how I use it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>BLKNSLVR</author><text>I tried Xpra for remote applications some four to five years ago when I migrated from Windows to Linux and needed a Remote Desktop (type) alternative.&lt;p&gt;I stuck with it for a while in advance of numerous other options, until I found NoMachine - which doesn&amp;#x27;t do remote applications but does do full remote desktop and has the closest &amp;#x27;feel&amp;#x27; to being local-machine than anything other than Windows Remote Desktop.&lt;p&gt;I (ironically?) dislike Microsoft just that little bit extra for making Remote Desktop so damn good whilst progressively destroying the Windows experience.&lt;p&gt;I would like to try Xpra again, but I&amp;#x27;ve got a growing list of &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;d like to try that&amp;#x27;s&amp;quot; that even the top priorities only get small bites taken out of them per week &amp;#x2F; month - and my current workflow is pretty good.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Xpra: Persistent Remote Applications for X11</title><url>https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra</url></story>