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I have an old pc on which I run jellyfin and some other stuff. It's only connected through lan. I used to use window's remotedesktop to connect to it, but that stopped working.

Now I'm looking for a good remote desktop. Because it s tucked away in a corner, fysical acces to it is cumbersome.

My server runs mint with xfce. My laptop runs windows 11, because of work reasons.

I'm inclined to use something like anydesk, but I'm unsure how to trust that company.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If you're not comfortable using SSH, each Linux DE comes with its own RDP setup, so refer to the docs of whichever you're running to set that up if you want things to be super simple.

Past that, there's tons of stuff, but I would generally avoid VNC these days because it's pretty much a dead protocol that is insecure and inefficient.

Some people prefer to use RDP compatible tools, some people just use Moonlight. You can use whatever is comfortable for you, really. I would avoid all the suggestions that are telling you to install the giant constructs like Mesh Central though. That's overkill for just two machines here.

[–] Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

can I use it if my gpu is amd?

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Sorry, are you asking about Moonlight specifically? I believe people use Sunshine for AMD acceleration. I wasn't even generally recommending it for use as a Remote Desktop solution since it's kind of overkill, just mentioning that some people use whatever tool will get the job done.