FYI: TeamViewer is much better than Chrome Remote Desktop for aging hardware

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mulcahey@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosting@slrpnk.net⁩

Sharing my own experience. (Sorry if this is already widely known! I’m somewhat new to self-hosting.)

I have a 2009 Mac Mini (upgraded via OCLP) that I use as a server for BlueBubbles, Jellyfin, & SyncThing. It’s not hooked up to a monitor, so I’ve been servicing it by remoting in via Chrome Remote Desktop. I only have to access it a few times a year, but each time is such a chore because this old machine is SO slow. Constant beachballing, every task takes forever. Chrome RD finally stopped working this month, so I switched to TeamViewer and I’m shocked by how much faster everything’s running. It’s still not fast (it IS a 2009 machine, after all) but I’m able to accomplish tasks much faster than when I was using CRD. And just like CRD, I’m able to start TeamViewer at startup, even before login, which is crucial.

Thank you TeamViewer!

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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Have you tried RustDesk? TeamViewer was monitoring my traffic and they didn’t like that I was using it at school so they kept closing my sessions after five minutes, so…no more TeamViewer 😆. Haven’t missed TeamViewer in the slightest.

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- mulcahey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ooh, I’ll check out RustDesk, thank you! My hope is that I’ll use this so infrequently that I won’t run into that issue, but good to have a backup. And LOVE that it’s open-source & self-hosted.
  
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haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Teamviewer is an absolute shitfest and had its data stolen approximately a year ago. Not to mention that it stops sessions for free tier users.

Rustdesk is a great solution imo for selfhosters.

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greengnu@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
ssh -X ${hostname} works better than both even on ancient hardware (pre 1990)

If you are going to self-host please embrace a shell (bash, powershell, fish, zsh, etc) any shell; then you’ll be fast and productive even at 300 Baud.

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
If ssh isn’t an option, others already mentioned RustDesk.

But I’ve been happy with VNC. (XVNC server, TigerVNC client) Incredibly lightweight, low bandwidth requirement, and I can get it up and running over ssh, so a system never needs to be plugged into anything other than a network cable.

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Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
old software works better on old hardware? hmmmm

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eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Everyone here is suggesting RustDesk, but it has had a few issues of its own

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FYI: TeamViewer is *much* better than Chrome Remote Desktop for aging hardware

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FYI: TeamViewer is much better than Chrome Remote Desktop for aging hardware