Please have a look at the warnings in the comments:
ITT: It’s sketchy and will possibly mess with your Wayland set up.
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.
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.
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
DO NOT USE THIS
This is a massive security risk and they have had so much controversy. They also routinely delete Github issues and discussions that question them. To top it off they are likely Chinese run.
HopToDesk. https://hoptodesk.com
It’s a fork of RustDesk.
Actually they seem kind of sketchy too. https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/2778
Maybe meshcentral?
It depends on what you are trying to do. You also could do something like Tailscale + TightVNC
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
China bans encryption and doesn’t allow you to use anything to thwart surveillance. I can’t say I want that in a remote access tool.
China bans encryption
Most confidently wrong statement I have read all year.
Not really. At this point, you’re having to pick between two surveillance states.
