Earlier today, I came across GitHub - Ylianst/MeshCentral: A complete web-based remote monitoring and management web site. Once setup you can install agents and perform remote desktop session to devices on the local network or over the Internet..
Apparently it’s a browser-based RDP client. Lately I’ve really been doing more with remote desktop. The primary driving force behind this is that the built-in monitor on my ThinkPad, which I had been using as my sole Windows machine via a dual boot, stopped working. (I am not entirely sure of the issue, but I have ruled out a faulty LCD panel and eDP cable). As a replacement, I bought a System76 Lemur Pro. I use it as a thin-client though because I decided that that’s all I really need when I am on the go. Though, tbf, the Intel Core i5-1335U has some pretty decent compute for what it is imo - especially the iGPU. Also, System76’s Coreboot firmware is way better for running Linux than the buggy Lenovo firmware I had to deal with on my old ThinkPad. It is now a Windows only system. I don’t think I am going to buy a new Windows system to replace it; and I actually want to try and fix my ThinkPad one day. Since I use Linux to remote into that machine, I have been using Remmina for my RDP client. However, it’s a bit obtuse to try to get it to work, a lot of things don’t seem to work quite right, and things appear fuzzy on the system. It’s not like using the RDP client built-in to Windows.
TLDR: When I came across the RMM software listed above, it made me reevaluate for what I am looking; I hadn’t thought of using a self-hosted webapp as an RDP client gateway before. If you guys have any alternative recommendations that would be nice. I’ve also been looking for a good RDP server for use on my Linux machines too. Wendell mentioned in a recent Level1 news episode that RDP servers in Linux have gotten quite good now. He didn’t elaborate, but I wish he had. In particular, does it work well with Wayland? What RDP server software do I use?