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Is there a good, free, cross platform alternative?

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Tail scale and sunshine/moonlight would work

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Maybe meshcentral?

It depends on what you are trying to do. You also could do something like Tailscale + TightVNC

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Meshcentral is discontinued because it was based on Intel ME (official program completely sucks) and when the dev was fired by Intel, he obviously lost any interest in the thing. All downloads even removed, only the source is available

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Completely disagree. Meshcentral is amazing. I use it almost everyday. Sure it has some querks, and I am not a fan of the default layout but that is an easy change.

It is certainly not discontinued.

Yes Ylian (the developer) was laid off from Intel and later started working at Microsoft. But the project is still alive and well. (He owns the domain so he was able to keep the website alive. Another user (Si458) Has taken up alot of the development (30 commits this month ) and Ylian has also continued development although much less now he has a day job. (1 Commit this month)

The only thing that got discontinued was the publicly hosted server of MC. That was costing to much and it required to much maintenance now this became a side project. So you will need to self host it now.

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HopToDesk. https://hoptodesk.com

It’s a fork of RustDesk.

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Actually they seem kind of sketchy too. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/2778

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Rustdesk but even more sketchy

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How do they improve on security and privacy ?

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That’s the neat part; they don’t!

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I personally use nomachine, and tailscale for VPN access. Genuinely no complaints, it kinda “just works”.

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I use DWService. Now everyone go ahead and tell me why I’m stupid.

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depends on your definition of good, and free

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This comment is helpful

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