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"Deskreen is a desktop app that turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer over WiFi."

Any device? Gauntlet thrown. I am very sure that I can find a device with a screen and a wifi dongle to which you cannot connect. Got a smartwatch?

"Available Disk Space: 210MB RAM: 250MB on average to run app with one screen sharing session. Every new screen sharing session will need upto 100MB of extra memory on average for smooth performance. CPU (Windows): any modern dual core CPU, weaker CPUs may have performance problems. CPU (MacOS): any modern CPU CPU (Linux): any modern CPU"

There it is. It can only connect to "modern" systems, probably limited to those built in the last decade or so. That isn't "any device" in my book. It isn't even every device in my office.

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This comment is helpful for places that don't have modern tech. Though the tone is fucked.

"Will Deskreen work on my 1st or 2nd generation IPads? Will Deskreen work on some really old device?

No. At the moment we are looking into solutions on how to add a support for really old screen viewing devices with old and outdated browsers. The problem is that WebRTC is not supported in old outdated web browsers, but we may fix this in the future. In future releases this issue may be fixed. Stay tuned. You can find updates in the following link: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen/issues/90"

And long before WebRTC, there've been Java VNC viewers. It doesn't get you the Deskreen UI on the host, and responsiveness may vary, but you can get RFB on some very old devices that way.

I don't mean to complain--actually, yes I do, so never mind that--but do you march into a fast food restaurant that claims to serve "the best burgers in town" and demand to have the manager issue a correction because the other place across the road also advertises the best burgers?

Or do you return a hat that reads "one size fits all" when you find a toddler whose head is too small for it?

I fail to see the need for such pedantry, at least put in such a way that seems very demeaning to the author (who, I note, does not appear to have English as their first language and so might have learned this turn of phrase by reading other advertising). If it bothers you that much, make a pull request to correct the record: https://github.com/pavlobu/deskreen

"Best" is an opinion, not an absolute. "One size fits all" explains states that only one size is available. The marketing of this product is the equivalent of saying "we have shirts in sizes to fit everyone", and then turning away all the short people.

I had a court appearance last year that I needed to attend using software that "works on every device". Not linux. Not older macs. Not the older windows machines in all the small law offices.

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