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ColdWater ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

I tried it and it’s works exactly like Anydesk, except it’s 5 times slower than Anydesk at least that’s on their server, I know I can host it myself but I don’t think I have the skill to set it up

haui_lemmy ,

It works very well and there is no speed difference at all. Of course you wont ever get anything worth in life without either putting in the work or paying either with money or your privacy.

Rambomst ,

I’ve been using MeshCentral lately, it does the job but the UI leaves something to be desired.

angel ,

Rustdesk looks good on the outside, but if you look inside, it has a really bad codebase and has done some sketchy stuff in the past.

Last year, it installed custom root certificates as trusted on windows, which is a huge security risk: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444

On linux systems, it forced its own autostart with no option to disable this behavior: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/4863

In the past, when it didn’t have Wayland support yet, it edited your GDM config and just disabled wayland: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/…/linux.rs#L411…

Furthermore, the code quality is really bad. 90% of the linux platform-dependant code is just executing shell commands and parsing their output, while the same could be achieved in a safe way with proper rust builtins: github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/…/linux.rs

While I agree that Rustdesk works pretty flawlessly, the codebase and the behavior of the developers made me distrust the software and I don’t recommend using it.

highduc ,

Wow that’s so sketchy.

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

@petsoi you might want to add that warning to the post.

They also tried to submit the app to Flathub, but had way too broad permissions with no explanation why. “Users expect filesystem access” etc. In the end it was rejected and they publish a .flatpak file themselves.

github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/5233

The other points are far worse though.

haui_lemmy ,

Okayyyy… thats not great. I just read one of the threads and thats scary.

The person(s?) maintaining this seems to be VERY BAD at communicating. They did fix the auto start problem but did not at all discuss this from what I see. Thats not great.

GravitySpoiled ,

I always neglected it because of its name. I thought it’s something for rust…

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

I guess it’s just written in Rust.

allywilson ,

Wasn’t there some controversy about this that it wasn’t entirely open-source?

dethada ,

they have a pro server with more features that’s closed source and paid

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

But why do you need a server for such a program? Can’t it be P2P or with the server stuff running on the client machine?

Kazumara ,

The server is used for hole punching, to open up a P2P connection thorugh NATs and Firewalls. If it doesn’t work the server also relays the traffic between the clients.

Getting an end to end connection through todays internet is unfortunately not easy for an average user.

dethada ,

Theoretically, without the server, every time you want to connect to a peer you would have to figure out what’s their public IP address is, which can change. The server acts as a middleman between the peers so you dont have to do this manually, all peers only need to know the server’s IP address to connect to each other. The server is really only used for this initial linking up of peers, afterwards the connection is P2P (if possible, they fall back to a relay server if P2P fails).

plasticcheese ,

I used this recently to help a friend with some tech stuff. The docker images were simple to bring up and within minutes we were connected. It freaked him out how easily I could get on and control his PC. I was impressed by the whole experience.

Takahe ,

Does this work on a headless box?

refalo ,

yes

souperk ,
@souperk@reddthat.com avatar

I have setup a rustdesk server with docker, it was surprisingly easy to get started. It was for a friend who is managing the IT services of a small factory, the completely switched from TeamViewer and they are satisfied. More importantly their users, who are worse than your average windows user, found the transition relatively painless.

gibdos ,
@gibdos@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah it’s pretty awesome. My only gripe with it is the fact that it is super annoying when you want to send a client with your self-hosted urls to a customer.

You can either awkardly add it to the filename or you need to fork the client and build it yourself. Kind of sucks that the easier custom client function is stuck behind their subscription.

refalo ,

authentication is also stuck behind their subscription. for random customers to be able to use your servers, you also have to let everyone else on the internet use it.

jws_shadotak ,

I self-host my own rustdesk server and it’s awesome. It just works flawlessly.

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