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RustDesk is often mentioned as an open source alternative. It has a bunch of weird code smells that make me a bit hesitant to use it for supporting family memb

RustDesk is often mentioned as an open source alternative. It has a bunch of weird code smells that make me a bit hesitant to use it for supporting family members, but it seems to work well from what I read from others? I use Teamviewer quite regularly, but that has some issues with Wayland. Free for personal use, but closed source with no self-hosting capabilities.

timbit42 3y ago
I've used TeamViewer, then AnyDesk and now RustDesk. TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies. RustDesk works really well and is fast. I switched from TeamViewer because they wanted money. I switched from AnyDesk because it gave me more problems with disconnecting, has the worst UI of the three and sometimes my screen would be a minute or more behind what the host was seeing.
- bloqs 3y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 please exercise caution
  - Sakos 3y ago
    Wow, I wouldn’t touch that with a 100 foot pole.
- 15457345234 3y ago
  > TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies. Can I ask why you mentioned this? It stands out.
  - timbit42 3y ago
    Because I happened to know it. They often make great stuff.
bloqs 3y ago
Weird code smell alright https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493
- jeroenhd 3y ago
  There's a lot of "just make it work" code in there. A "customer said software didn't work in China because of a missing cert, now importing cert on startup and it works" kind of deal. For a while it used `sed` to disable Wayland on Linux in a way that only applies to Gnome (specifically on Ubuntu and a few other distros). The code also has a bunch of other exec()s with several commands piped into each other to parse the output. None of it seems ill-intended, but it's code I would straight reject if I would be tasked to review it.
  - GoblinSlayer 3y ago
    It's not the first quality Chinese software.

timbit42 3y ago

I've used TeamViewer, then AnyDesk and now RustDesk. TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies. RustDesk works really well and is fast. I switched from TeamViewer because they wanted money. I switched from AnyDesk because it gave me more problems with disconnecting, has the worst UI of the three and sometimes my screen would be a minute or more behind what the host was seeing.

bloqs 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 please exercise caution
- Sakos 3y ago
  Wow, I wouldn’t touch that with a 100 foot pole.
15457345234 3y ago
> TeamViewer and AnyDesk are both German companies. Can I ask why you mentioned this? It stands out.
- timbit42 3y ago
  Because I happened to know it. They often make great stuff.

bloqs 3y ago

Weird code smell alright https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39256493

jeroenhd 3y ago
There's a lot of "just make it work" code in there. A "customer said software didn't work in China because of a missing cert, now importing cert on startup and it works" kind of deal. For a while it used `sed` to disable Wayland on Linux in a way that only applies to Gnome (specifically on Ubuntu and a few other distros). The code also has a bunch of other exec()s with several commands piped into each other to parse the output. None of it seems ill-intended, but it's code I would straight reject if I would be tasked to review it.
- GoblinSlayer 3y ago
  It's not the first quality Chinese software.