On 29/11/2018 21:04, Alister wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:13:21 +0100, Björn Lundin wrote:
>
>> On 2018-11-29 17:18, Alister wrote:
>>> Again yes, but he does have an account & it works with his laptop which
>>> runs Fedora so it is not a window V Linux compatibility issue.
>>
>> Could you mirror the desktop to the pi with a remote desktop,
>> like VNC or RDP-ish stuff ?
>>
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> possibly , would it be fast enough?, guess there is only on way to find
> out.
> x forwarding may also be an option the question is could my dad cope with
> it - needs to be pretty idiot proof.
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Dont go x-forwarding. You need gigabit nework speeds and a lot of CPU to
do that effectively for full screen video. DAMHIKT

Frankly I'd lean towards resurrecting some old 32 bit machine from a
dumpster, slapping in a decent video card and installing x86 linux with
a remote keyboard and mouse...



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