@heisec

Gut, dass es #rustdesk gibt.

@mrmasterkeyboard @0xF21D @cesarpose for individiuals who do stuff on the side and who definitely don't make ends meet with #FLOSS I don't assume malice or incompetence unless proven otherwise.

• If this were like #TeamViewer or #AnyDesk who charge triple digits per seat and year I'd not accept that tho!

Granted #Dayon is AFAICT the only competitive offering if #MeshCentral, #RustDesk & #Remotely are too overkill and that works on the convenient "Reverse-Server" model where one needs to only configure the network on the Assistant end, not on the end of the user seeking help.

• Which is espechally desired for systems that one hasn't onboarded or ain't intended to get onboarded as a matter of principle (i.e. individual clients' desktops)...

@ml I've heard of #RustDesk, but lets just say the whole "it's not #SaaS!" when it clearly is a #subscription #licensing scheme is kinda off-putting to me...
https://rustdesk.com/pricing/?lang=en

• I mean, it is "#OpenSource" as in #SUSE, #OracleLinux ( & #RedHad used to be)...

That doesn't mean they are bad - far from it.

• Tho being better than #TeamViewer or #AnyDesk isn't that hard...

I just use #Dayon because it's very easy to walkthrough #TechIlliterates when it comes to getting #RemoteSupport up and running with them.

@RockyC why bother with raspberry pi connect- you could use #RustDesk on on your devices and interconnect them using #Tailscale

@jamesbannan Fwiw...

I've been working on a "project" with Dad [now 88] this year [part-time], after warning him for a couple of years that win10 was soon to be unsupported.

• I created a few VirtualBox VMs on his win10 pc with some different candidate distros [ZorinLinux, KFedora, Mint Cinnamon], & coached him into how to use various FOSS replacements for his MS Office 2013 etc.
• Now & then, in between sticking his head back into the sand hoping it would just all go away, he diligently explored & practised using some of his important "Word" & "Excel" files in #OnlyOffice [which i chose coz it has better compatibility with his MS files than #LibreOffice], & was able to conclude on his own bat that "yep, it'll do".
• For other mandatory proprietary pgms he insists on sticking with, that have absolutely no FOSS equivalent, i've shown him that i will create a win10 VM in his eventual Linux, in which i'll install such pgms, so he'll still have them.
• By far the hardest aspect of this project is his need to continue using his current printer, & flatbed scanner. Getting these to work has proven torrid, & as i don't use any such HW myself, i've not enjoyed this aspect At All. The associated FOSS scanning apps in particular seem less sophisticated than his win10 one, but afaict he's now come around to the view that prolly it's also "good enough".
• An unexpected showstopper came out of the blue ~month ago. We'd settled on KFedora for him. One day it crossed my mind that as a formality i should confirm that i can still successfully remotely access "his" KFedora, to continue supporting him in this new paradigm like i have for years with his windoze. To my great displeasure i found i could not! Fedora is only Wayland nowadays [which i also run on my own ArchLinux KDE host, but here i can still choose to loginto X11, whereas one cannot on KFedora]. Neither #AnyDesk nor #RustDesk would work [AD won't even bother trying to connect to a Wayland remote, whereas RD let me, but then refused to let me actually interact with the remote in any way]. #TeamViewer did work... but i hate using that company. So now it seems i shall be installing Mint Cinnamon in Sept [which did test ok with AD].
• We've tentatively scheduled Sept for when i'll travel to his place & do the conversion [he picked Sept as part of his ongoing reluctance to change, which he juggles with his understanding that in fact doing nothing is just not an option anymore].

Good luck.

@nsysteme @expertenkommision_cyberunfall @gborn Okay, #RustDesk muss ich mir mal ansehen...

https://rustdesk.com/de/

Sieht jedenfalls nach nem #AnyDesk-Ersatz aus und damit auch granularer mit Rechte-Managment & Co.

@Stomata
> I never used teamviewer before. How can I be sure it's not spyware?
You can never be sure, as it is nonfree software. (In their defense, it's very popular so it's probably not spyware).
For something like TeamViewer, but free, I would recommend #RustDesk. You can even self-host the server if you want. A mobile client exists in F-Droid.
@TimePencil