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I have an old pc on which I run jellyfin and some other stuff. It's only connected through lan. I used to use window's remotedesktop to connect to it, but that stopped working.

Now I'm looking for a good remote desktop. Because it s tucked away in a corner, fysical acces to it is cumbersome.

My server runs mint with xfce. My laptop runs windows 11, because of work reasons.

I'm inclined to use something like anydesk, but I'm unsure how to trust that company.

Edit: I got rustdesk up and running and it's a good solution for my usecase. Thanks for all the tips and suggestions.

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[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I was using realvnc but I hit the 3 free PCs quickly. I've since moved to nomachine and run it "locally" over tailscale.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Edited, thanks @Björn:

Whatever destination computer you're looking to connect to, install Sunshine.

Then on the source computer, use Moonlight to connect to the destination.

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[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Will that still be supported with Wayland?

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[–] eli@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Install Tailscale on all devices.

Then ssh into whatever you need.

If you need desktop remote access the Windows RDP should work for Windows to Windows machines.

For Linux host to Windows client I've had good experiences with Remmina Desktop.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I hate having to continuously point this out, but DO NOT DO THIS unless you have a deeper understanding of networking.

"Just installing Tailscale" without proper configuration of the default routes is going to cause all kinds of routing inefficiencies and loopbacks in your internal network that is absolutely unnecessary, especially for what OP asking for.

This is just bad advice.

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