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Does Wayland improve the remote desktop story at all? I sometimes drop to X11 forwarding because VNC and X2Go don't really work so well for me. If I think I'm going to need a remote desktop for a while, I'll reboot into Windows and load my Linux installation up as a raw disk VM in VMware Workstation and then rely on Windows's RDP for remote desktop. I'd love to simplify all this.

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If anything Wayland makes network transparency worse because there's nothing like ssh -X for it that works out of the box. Another commenter mentioned waypipe, which is a start, but it'll likely be years before it achieves the required ubiquity.

I had good ux with realvnc, maybe novnc, ..

It's been a while, so maybe I'll give that shot again. My experience with VNC is that it's just laggy and really doesn't like it when I connect to a multi-display desktop with a single display laptop. Windows Remote Desktop adapts beautifully with virtually no lag, so I was hoping Wayland adopted something similar.

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