I have fiber with 6ms ping to our windows machines, RDP connection. I've tried a few times to get these VDI setups close to matching what I have now and I can't. Either RDP is amazing, naked hardware is amazing, or VDI is a dog. I'm willing to pay.
I still haven't found anything better than RDP. Back when Windows was my primary work machine, I could bring it home, plug it into power, shut the lid, toss it up on a shelf and still RDP into it, and use all of my monitors. And it ran as good as local. Still haven't found anything that compares to it in any way. VNC always just gives you the resolution of the host's desktop. Plus it's always just some screen capture into a video codec.
Ok, well back in the day, I would say X11 was actually far better than that. Over dialup, it would blow away RDP performance-wise.
