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

submitted 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks 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.

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