Earlier this month I tried some options. Just my personal experience as a basic user. Disclaimer: trying to connect over internet (not LAN) to a machine running Plasma Wayland. Some points I remember:
- AnyDesk and RustDesk didn't work.
- xrdp has some issues like it doesn't work if user is already logged in the physical machine when you try to connect. Also if I don't manually logout before disconnecting from remote, my physical PC freezes, forcing me to reboot.
- NoMachine and TeamViewer are good. I also quickly tested with X11 and performance was bad with AnyDesk and xrdp. RustDesk is in between the two pairs, closer to the good ones.
- I couldn't make NoMachine send audio, maybe because I use PipeWire?
- NoMachine has better keyboard support, simple and important hotkeys like
Ctrl+Cdidn't work consistently for me with TeamViewer, even after searching for grab keyboard-like settings.Alt+Tabto switch active window also doesn't work properly on TeamViewer, it's captured by local machine instead of remote. - None of them were able to hide the screen (privacy mode) in the physical monitor. At least NoMachine can automatically lock the session when you disconnect.
I ended up using NoMachine. I guess it has similar performance as connecting to a Windows machine using FreeRDP, but with some minor issues like no audio (for me this wasn't important).
So from my experience, I'd rank this way:
- NoMachine > TeamViewer > RustDesk > AnyDesk > xrdp.
Didn't try VNC options because everyone says (from what I read) they perform poorly.
In my first two years of Linux, I struggled between using Notepad++ through Wine and trying the many different editors out there (including the three you mentioned, with Kate being the one I tried the most to be the chosen one), never feeling fully satisfied. Until I found a little-known one that I would use today even in a Windows machine where Np++ is a native option: CudaText.
Just like Np++, you can get extra useful features by installing plugins. And you should dig into available settings to adjust to your taste.
In the end, CudaText is a more advanced editor than Np++, while it still feels welcoming for editing non-code text, unlike VSCode or Sublime imo.