Teamviewer alternative

Iamnotageek

Iamnotageek

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Hey guys,

Been using Teamviewer for a very long time, but this "commercial use suspected" is annoying and I'm too poor to afford to purchase it. :/ ( App now bombs after every 5 minutes )

Can anyone provide a free alternative that installs / set up's easily as Teamviewer perhaps?

It's strictly for Windows machines.

Thank you
 
Iamnotageek said:
Hey guys,

Been using Teamviewer for a very long time, but this "commercial use suspected" is annoying and I'm too poor to afford to purchase it. :/ ( App now bombs after every 5 minutes )

Can anyone provide a free alternative that installs / set up's easily as Teamviewer perhaps?

It's strictly for Windows machines.

Thank you
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Budget for Team Viewer / Screen share software with your business. It is just fair. Unless of course you don't use it for commercial purposes. Maybe consider something like www.gotomeeting.com which has a monthly fee.
 
Google remote desktop for personal use.
 
Same situation.

So far I found two that is worth while:

Chrome Remote Desktop ( gets the job done )

NoMachine, fcking love this, but does cause a black screen on some PC's probably weird drivers or something.
 
There is also AnyDesk and one's name I forgot, something like emme or such. We use teamviewer though, gets the job done.
 
Iamnotageek said:
Hey guys,

Been using Teamviewer for a very long time, but this "commercial use suspected" is annoying and I'm too poor to afford to purchase it. :/ ( App now bombs after every 5 minutes )

Can anyone provide a free alternative that installs / set up's easily as Teamviewer perhaps?

[-]It's strictly for Windows machines.[/]

Thank you
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Yea, AnyDesk FTW. It's micro-tiny, doesn't (or has yet to, after using it extensively all over the damn place) nag you, and is really quite stable ..but has its own quirks: you can count on the remote gfx not being anywhere near as good as TV, and the mouse input is laggy in comparison too. And you have to install it in order to avoid slamming into the 'no entry'/denied icon on something that requires privilege escalation on the remote host ..but then, if you get creative with host naming, you get to have a funky name and keep (like maybe cyclops@ad as a remote host (well not that exactly, I lost that one after formatting the PC and losing the unique machine key before I knew about saving that file)).

And it does file transfer with ctrl-c/ctrl-v (it's the weirdest thing to do with 'tween you and a remote host, but both works, and flies, have tested it between two hosts, and seen it get very enthusiastic with chewing up the bandwidth for the copy op). Oh, and you can drive a (PC) remote host (I have 'doze and 'NIX boxen out there) from Android (it's kinda funky to do on a ~ 5" phone, but it does work)
 
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TeamViewer are a bunch of rip-offs. Less than 3 months of buying a commercial license they upped to a new version and tried to get me to pay the full amount again, all for no improvement which would have been of use to me. And, yes, at the time of purchase they confirmed that no upgrade was on the horizon.

Other reputable software companies offer from 12 month free upgrade window to perpetual.
 
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