Rustdesk is great. Took a little work to get the self hosting working, but it's great once that's sorted. A few features are not implemented, but the essentials are there.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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just playin' op.
It's called multitasking babe, and it's ~~essential to my workflow~~ ruining my brain
Jesus me too, absolutely agree with the ruining my brain part. Glad it's not just me. Too much multitasking...
Did Anydesk do something shady?
Unless you can make it onto their whitelist, the free version of the app kicks you out of sessions after one hour. But most troubling, the paid version only allows a single outgoing connection to a computer. Want to connect to two different computers at the same time? Sorry bub, the license is now twice as expensive. Three computers? Thrice as expensive. Bafflingly, the free version allows you to connect to as many computers as you want at the same time. You actually get punished for paying for their software.
I'm willing to pay for a good service, but doubling the price for concurrent connections is just not sustainable, and it's a recently updated pricing model.
RustDesk offers all the same functionality I need from Anydesk, but it's free.
Edit: I am most certainly not finished with fully evaluating RustDesk as an Anydesk replacement, but after a day of deploying it across several computers, I'm optimistic about it's functionality and accessability.
Running earlier versions of 7, and occasionally deleting %programdata% when they start kicking you off gets around these limitations for now.
OK. I didn't know any of this! Thanks for filling me in. I've been using anydesk since I jumped shipped from TeamViewer a couple of years ago. It's been doing what I've needed it to do, but I don't ever have more than one connection at a time.
It's great that Rustdesk exists but it is not ready for serious use.
Ill just use it whimsically then
Hell yeah
what would convince me to use rustdesk over anydeak and to reccomend it to my friends instead of anydesk?
The pale yellow highlighted bit
Thanks for this wonderful little psa
Bruh I just VPN into my home network and use Remote Desktop or the equivalent for my Linux servers 🤗
Im not sure if RDP supports screen blanking, chat, multiple concurrent connections to the same computer (I often log in to observe while a contractor or developer works on a production system) and multiple displays (my home pc is set up.with multiple displays just as my office PC is, so i can establish two essions, one for each display)
RDP actually does support multiple displays, the rest is a hell no, unless it's an RDS server
exact same thing happened with teamviewer some years ago.
at least its FOSS this time so maybe we aint repeating mistakes of the past anymore.