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?

  • disheveledWallaby
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    11 months ago

    ssh is what I would use. You can setup X forwarding if your not that comfortable in the terminal.

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      11 months ago

      Well, I want to be able to see the screen so that I can talk my grandma through stuff. I have fixed things through SSH and run updates that way too.

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        11 months ago

        X forwarding should let you use GUI apps from the remote computer. Its not quite a full remote desktop experience though. You can see how to set up and use x forwarding on YouTube.

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          11 months ago

          X forwarding still won’t show Grandma’s point of view to work through the problem in front of her. It’s not a remote desktop experience at all.

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            11 months ago

            Sorry it doesn’t work for you. There are other options in this thread to try. Best of luck.

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          11 months ago

          I’ve used X11 over SSH before and it works great for some use cases, however it does not work with Wayland, so if their system supports it now, there’s no guarantee it will work after a major system update.

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            11 months ago

            I was curious about that as I haven’t tried Wayland yet and its been a while since I’ve had any reason for an x session via ssh. Glad someone with first hand knowledge could chime in for OP and others as well as myself.