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I only just switched to Linux last month that time I don't know what Wayland or X11 is and I just use Linux like normal without knowing I'm using Wayland (KDE), now since I'm already configured my KDE desktop on Wayland and I don't wanna do it again, so I'm looking for a remote desktop that work under Wayland not locally but from anywhere does anyone know software like that exist? (Sorry for horrible English)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, still no official, sigh. Along with potentially rustdesk, I've found Sunshine/Moonlight useful but setup sucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sunshine/Moonlight works well for me also.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always liked "nomachine" for remote desktop access. It seems to support Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We use NoMachine at work too, for WFH users' remote access to internal servers and virtual desktops. It's a nice tidy solution, it was forked from NX library from the X2GO project about 10 years ago and went commercial, they used the commercial money to continue to develop the technology.

Given it was forked from NX/X2GO it definitely works better on Xorg than Wayland, it seems like Wayland support was added as an afterthought bolted on.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What version of kde? I haven't tried it, or read about it beyond the changelog, however the latest beta release says that it supports RDP to connect to plasma desktops which is quite an interesting development if it works the way it sounds like it does:

Remote Desktop system integration to allow RDP clients to connect to Plasma desktops, plus a new page in System Settings for configuring this

For the "from anywhere" component you could use a vpn, but if you're looking for a simple solution with zero configuration than nomachine or rustdesk seem more appropriate. Just thought the RDP support was worth sharing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does and I'm beta testing plasma 6.1 now. I can confirm it is there. I'll have to give it a try later.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Thanks for the replies, I'm going for Rustdesk it's seem pretty good

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hopefully the team has smartened up a bit since these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Were they just disabling Wayland instead of handling it properly? Is that what the code was doing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but by editing config files 😐

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huge. Good stuff. Lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what rust looks like? Yikes. How do people put up with this?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its syntax is incredibly similar to C++, the programming language it is targeting as a replacement. I don't really understand the confusion here; have you never used C++?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

have you never used C++

Only for 20 years

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then I don't really understand the issue here. It's syntactically similar to C++ with the benefits of being memory safe. It's a different language, so there are different conventions and some different syntax of course, but that's to be said about any 2 languages; they are always different in some ways. I don't see a reason to complain about the aesthetic value of a language you don't know how to use, especially when it's similar to one that you seem to be using regularly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, even moreso than it being hard to read, to me it's just ugly. So in that regard I don't think it really matters if I can understand it in the first place, if I just can't stand to look at it to begin with. Like it just makes me not even want to try. I get a similar vibe with Ruby as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not great for Wayland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only found RustDesk recently and it's awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rustdesk is pretty decent and being developed quite fast. Why not look at MeshCentral too. Choice is good and MC has been around for a fair old while.

My company replaced Teamviewer with MC and we have thousands of client machines across the UK.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you want to access your computer from outside your LAN, it would be a good idea to at least secure it or, unfortunately the best, learn to understand what you are doing

Coming back to the topic, though, I'd start with checking these out

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So you want to remote desktop into your computer?

That would be served by wayvnc which is a service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've heard good things about RustDesk. Very similar to TeamViewer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KDE and Gnome both have this feature built in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On what exactly? They both have desktop sharing (RDP) built in.

On gnome and gnome based desktops you can turn it on in sharing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't know it existed, or what it was called, or how to use it.

It seems Gnome 42 introduced it, which is not available in Debian stable.

They're really using RDP though? That is shocking to me. What does that say about all the other options that were available?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

FreeRDP is the most performent and secure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rustdesk vouch.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

What is it you'd like to do? You might be able to do it with ssh