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Best remote control option to support non-techies
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RustDesk is excellent, it's basically open source TeamViewer. And if you don't want to use their servers, you can even host your own.
Thank you very much, that GUI looks very similar to Teamviewer which they already know.
I didn't download and try it yet. Do you know if you can indeed use their servers as well without self-hosting? I went to their website and scrolled through the GitHub FAQ and at first sight I can only see the self-hosted option. They even advertise it as 'non SaaS'.
Yes, you can just install and use it straight away, no need to mess with self-hosting if you don't want to. You also don't need a subscription, that just unlocks some extra features.
Once you install the client, it will connect to the public server and give you a message of "For faster connections use your own server" or similar, but thats it. You can test that with your own machine (or android/ios if you don't have a second pc)