I know you said you’re biased against it, but TeamViewer is dead easy and completely free for noncommercial use. Sometimes the normie way is the best way, especially when it comes to the tech illiterate. Similarly, Chrome Remote Desktop looks very handholdy. I haven’t used it in many years, so I can’t personally recommend it, but I’ve heard good things.
You could also start a call on your preferred conferencing software, send them a link, and have them share their screen. Downside is you can’t control their computer directly. Zoom has a really cool annotation feature where you can draw on the sharer’s screen and they’re able to see it. I haven’t seen other conferencing software with that feature, but I haven’t looked very hard.
Yeah, they do that. I was using it on three machines within my own home and got flagged for "commercial usage". I requested to be whitelisted and it stopped for a while but came back. Between that and the software randomly uninstalling itself from one of my machines it's just not worth it. Went back to UVNC.
Yup… I was using it to occasionally fix a headless Windows computer in my house (basically my own, LAN based GeForce now using moonlight so I can play any Windows game from Linux … Sunshine on the Windows side occasionally needs upgraded and/or something needs fixed so Moonlight itself wasn’t enough).
Anyways, I needed to fix something one day, Moonlight wasn’t working and TeamViewer locked me out for “commercial use” … I ended up just upgrading the Windows computer from 11 Home to 11 Pro and configuring RDP (Remmina is the client I use on the Linux side).
It works way better, Moonlight for most things and RDP (built into the operating system) for when something breaks.
For anything where TeamViewer locking you out is a high risk of disruption, I wouldn’t trust them to honor their non-commercial use commitment.
The Rustdesk MacOS client has been buggy on my Grandmother’s computer, on my end (Arch) it works flawlessly even though support for Wayland is experimental, so yes I need something that is cross-platform. I left out details on purpose thinking it was best no to be too verbose, I’ll edit the post now for clarification. Thank you
Hey, I’m the Photon dev. I’d like to know which parts Photon incorrectly displayed, so far I only see tables rendering incorrectly. I’ll have this fixed soon.
Holy shit, Photon has gotten this good now? When I tried it a few months back it felt like just yet another Lemmy client. Now it feels so smooth and polished. Works great on mobile even. Thanks for making this!
Hey, the admin of slrpnk.net has been thinking of making Photon the default frontend but updates to it sometimes cause breaking issues? Any chance you could get into contact with them so it can become the default in a way that updates wont break it?
Even back in the late ‘90s I was experimenting both personally and professionally with alternative OSes. By early to mid 2000s I had some systems off the big money players and as of today I have 20 or so systems on Linux and ONE left with primary Windows only because I hardly use it as a desktop and it’s mostly providing services internally. So don’t fix what ain’t broken. Even then I’m planning to test a dual boot soon just to whet the computer’s appetite. And when it lets me know it’s ready, I’ll be 100% Microshaft free instead of 99%. Those sleazebags dug their own graves and they know it.
lol even in 2005 Linux was excellent for most situations. Problem was in a business environment it was usually harder to find someone who has the expertise in Linux but also gaming - the lowest-common-denominator sector of development - usually just prioritizes Windows. This is NOT because it’s “better,” but because it gives them more freedom and they can get shit “done” faster. On the user-side, meanwhile, Windows wasn’t really doing the user any more favors than just working pretty nicely.
But today? Omfg Linux has come insanely far while Windows is what, pretty much you handing over master control to M$ while borrowing some CPU time on your own computer so gracious of them.
Oh but if it lets you play a game then all is forgiven. Lol. Priorities.
it’s Wayland, multiply any number times 10 at least. I’ve been waiting 2 years so far for them to decide on the word “must” vs “may” in a part of the protocol
This, I tried some newer distros with Wayland and ended up going back to Debian Stable and X11 for gaming. Got Sunshine (for Moonlight handheld client streaming) working for in about a minute.
All the talk I’ve seen about Wayland to date has been that it’s great if/when it works perfectly but that’s rare because it’s just not ready. Shame really.
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