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any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.

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I am an Arch Linux laptop user. Plain RDS through Remmina works great for Windows machines. When not usable, I found AnyDesk to work fine-ish (but it changes system keyboard settings, which is annoying). I can't use TeamViewer which still doesn't support Wayland.

Now I understand the grey screen under sway.

I have no recommendations that are free-as-in-speech.

NoMachine[1] is free-as-in-beer[2] and it works nearly flawlessly across linux/windows/mac.

1: https://www.nomachine.com/

2: It's freemium with the following note: "If you need to create virtual Linux desktops on demand, want to limit the logins to SSH, or are using NIS, Kerberos or other enterprise functionalities, you need one of the NoMachine Enterprise products you can download"

Does nomachine work if my computer is behind a firewall?

If you can forward the ssh port, yes.

I've been using Parsec, it's marketed as a game streaming service but it just streams your whole screen at a very good rate. It works perfectly for me.

Before I tried Windows Remote Desktop and TeamViewer and had issues with both. I specially had issues with the mouse not being replicated properly so 3D software bugged out.

We’re about to roll out remote work for our small office using chromebooks and chrome’s Remote Desktop. I’ve had success using chrome Remote Desktop personally, so hopefully it works as well for my users.

Have not used it in a couple years but GoToMyPC worked pretty well when I was using it.

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