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Can I remote desktop into a Windows 11 system from Linux without using a full blown installation on a VM? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Is there a more lightweight solution? Like, some ssh frontend? I'd like to help my mom cleaning up her Windows computer because she's not very tech savvy. I can of course just screen share on some messaging app but it'd save so much time if I could have control.

I'm not going to be reacting to answers advising me to install a Windows esque distro on her computer.

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[–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Well I'll be damned. 2001? Good year too! 🤣 thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    @akunohana I last used it about twenty years ago. I notice it is no longer supported.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Still works once you can get it to connect, though. The catch is that connecting can take several tries. Probably better to use remmina unless there's a bug in freerdp that's causing problems for your use case (rdesktop is, I believe, the only Linux rdp client that uses its own protocol implementation instead of the freerdp library).

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