I've been looking for a way to run those pesky few necessary 3D Windows apps without dual booting for a long time and it finally occurred to me that Ubuntu has a Remote Desktop client built right in. So what I'm wondering is, has anybody ever used 3D software, like CAD, over a fast network using Remote Desktop? It'd be nice to know, first of all, if it is at all possible to run it at a usable speed that way, and also how fast of a network would be necessary to avoid too much slowdown. Ideally, I'd love to get ahold of a sufficiently fast desktop with a good video card and then Remote Desktop to it from my laptop over a wireless LAN when I need to do some CAD work. Obviously, since I'd already have the desktop running the software there isn't a whole lot of point to this, but it would be nice to have the ability to do some work from the couch while taking advantage of the desktop's superior graphics card and memory, all within my familiar Gnome desktop.
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