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FYI: TeamViewer is much better than Chrome Remote Desktop for aging hardware (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by mulcahey@lemm.ee to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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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 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mulcahey@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] greengnu@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

old software works better on old hardware? hmmmm

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 1 points 1 month ago

Everyone here is suggesting RustDesk, but it has had a few issues of its own