Having a setup where I would like to run 10-20 zero-clients (like ThinStation). Users would like to connect to a Windows desktop and stream various videos from services like youtube.

I have been setting up ThinStation where a number of test PC's boots directly into FreeRDP and connects to a Windows 2016 RDS-server. It works well except for the streaming part. One single client in full screen fills up 100% of two of the Win2016 RDS 4 Xeon CPUs!

I am aware of MS' RemoteFX but this requires HyperV. We are running VMware, and for this, you will have to use Horizon and PCoIP/Blast. Only... the license price for this is simply outrageous.

As we would like to keep our VMware virtualization, going to MS' HyperV is something we would be very sad about just because of this.

I have been working with NoMachine before, and as I remember, it worked very well with video streaming from the NX client...

I was going to try this again, but reading about it, I found numerous places where people wrote "Hey!!! No, no, no... try x2go instead... this is a fork of NoMachine".

Ok... this was what I did then. Installed x2go on a CentOS, downloaded the x2go client only to experience that streaming like with FreeRDP and RDS work just as bad.

Apart from this, I really liked x2go, and if I am able to get a much better desktop feel with full screen streaming, I would definitely force our users to use this Open Source solution instead.

Can anyone in here suggest a way to setup x2go to perform better with streaming like if we used a setup that could handle H.264?

Regards, Lars.