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

Are there any limitations to Meshcentral? I tried using Team Viewer and a few others when I was supporting family on Windows, and they all wanted to charge me after a while.

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

I self-host Meshcentral. I haven't seen any limitation at all. I don't know if there are limitations when you use meshcentral.com instead of self-hosting.

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

Thanks for replying :)

I'll have a look into it, thanks. I pretty much only support my mother's laptop outside of my house now, but I use NoMachine to sort out the home computers. As much as I like it, it can be a bit slow sometimes, and it's always in the back of my mind that it's going to lock me out like the others did.

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

Oh actually if you are worried about vendor lock-in: Meshcentral is opensource. So even if they decide to try something stupid, a fork would be likely to happen.

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

Wayland, unless something's changed since the last time I tried it.

Try Anydesk, it's very much like Teamviewer in many ways, though it's not FOSS.