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RustDesk: I Found This Open-Source TeamViewer Alternative Impressive! (news.itsfoss.com)

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Please have a look at the warnings in the comments:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21632052/12893621

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21632052/12897257

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

ITT: It's sketchy and will possibly mess with your Wayland set up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I had my eye on this a few months back when I was looking for a FOSS windows Remote Desktop alternative. Between the security issues, and generally struggle to get it working well, I eventually went to a sunshine/moonlight combo for shockingly high performance screen sharing that can even handle basic gaming if need be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I spent like 20 minutes self hosting and running over tailscale so traffic is always private... Never had an issue. I've got over 20 devices accessible on it.

Easy to remote register over ssh just by sending the installer plus running with server name plus key, then setting a static password.

I still think gaming wide moonlight is great though. You won't really regret that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I was running it through Tailscale too. I’m definitely closer to a newbie than I am a self hosting vet, so there’s likely some fault of mine that made things not run so well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I was hesitant to open this post because I already know about rustdesk, but eventually I did to see the community's opinion on it. I'm so glad that I did because this is terrible!

I think more people should hear about all of this

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