tsclient vs. rdesktop
If you use tsclient under Linux to connect to a remote Windows desktop via RDP5, then you may want to check out using rdesktop instead. From my (admittedly brief) experience with rdesktop, the speeds are much greater, and I’m not entirely sure why. I don’t know if rdesktop has more options that allow for fine tuning the connection or if tsclient (being a GUI) is slower than the command-line rdesktop due to the extra overhead of the GUI rendering. I’m not sure.
If you’re looking to use rdesktop instead of tsclient, you can read through the well-written man page for figuring out your command line. To help you out, here is the command line that I use to connect to my remote Windows 7 desktop:
/usr/bin/rdesktop -u[USERNAME_REDACTED] -z -xb -P -g1280x960 REMOTE_HOSTNAME_HERE
Hope this helps!
Welcome Linux MINT
I’ve been a long-time user of Ubuntu for my desktops, laptops and netbook, but those days are over. I got fed up with the Unity interface and the kludge of packing GNOME on top of it to make that work semi-properly. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 6.04 (11.10 is the latest) and that’s quite a few years.
Now, I’m a dedicated Linux MINT fan after only two days of using it. It took me only a few hours to backup $HOME, install MINT, restore $HOME and configure/polish/tweak things to where I wanted them. That’s not too bad.
I’ve only done this on my work laptop thus far, but I plan on dropping MINT on my desktop (probably over the weekend) and once I’m done with that, I’ll go with MINT on my netbook as well.
My server (the one hosting this site) will remain Ubuntu server because I don’t have to put up with any GUI garbage on servers. 
