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codeslave13

Lots of chatter that it has some issues

https://youtu.be/JIAdEGX_sIU

Makes changes to system

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/1.1.9/src/platform...

I prefer meshcentral myself

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It no longer changes system configuration on the master branch

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/pull/3002

Ill never trust them not to pull shit like that again.

Plenty of reddit threads to on issues with relay servers (china) etc. Boils down to i just dont trust it anymore

This is particularly interesting, the commit modified the `WaylandEnable` option in the file "/etc/gdm3/custom.conf" to "false", disabling Wayland and enabling X11.

But even more interestingly so, the modification is performed with elevated privileges, via `pkexec` command.

Yikes.

Exactly. Unforgivable in my book

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