I have a few family members that I help support. For instance, I installed Linux Mint on my grandmother’s PC. She doesn’t know any different and my young cousin doesn’t understand it so he finally stopped giving it viruses. I used to use TeamViewer to take over her PC when she needed support but I got my account banned because they believed I was using it commercially. Oh well!

I have Tailscale installed on the computers. This gives me SSH access. What would you suggest? RDP? Something else?

  • @thejodie
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    7 months ago

    I think that screen lock is really only the case in Windows. Most linux vnc and rdp servers either run their own completely separate X session or share the console session.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      True enough for VNC but we’re specifically talking about RDP, which is supported by Linux Mint.

      • @thejodie
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        17 months ago

        That’s on me for typing vnc when I meant rdp, but nevertheless it’s true for both.