• @angel@sopuli.xyz
    97•9 months ago

    Rustdesk looks good on the outside, but if you look inside, it has a really bad codebase and has done some sketchy stuff in the past.

    Last year, it installed custom root certificates as trusted on windows, which is a huge security risk: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/discussions/6444

    On linux systems, it forced its own autostart with no option to disable this behavior: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/4863

    In the past, when it didn’t have Wayland support yet, it edited your GDM config and just disabled wayland: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/1.1.9/src/platform/linux.rs#L411-L422

    Furthermore, the code quality is really bad. 90% of the linux platform-dependant code is just executing shell commands and parsing their output, while the same could be achieved in a safe way with proper rust builtins: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/master/src/platform/linux.rs

    While I agree that Rustdesk works pretty flawlessly, the codebase and the behavior of the developers made me distrust the software and I don’t recommend using it.

    • boredsquirrel
      25•9 months ago

      @petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de you might want to add that warning to the post.

      They also tried to submit the app to Flathub, but had way too broad permissions with no explanation why. “Users expect filesystem access” etc. In the end it was rejected and they publish a .flatpak file themselves.

      https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/5233

      The other points are far worse though.

      • Karna
        6•9 months ago

        Rustdesk controversy

        The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce
      7•9 months ago

      Really sad about this, because Rust Desk has been the absolute best remote access tool I’ve ever used in the IT world, and that includes many different professional tools like Ninja& Teamviewer.

      It’s so clean, easy to install and run, fast and low latency, handles multi-monitors great, runs on mobile, Linux, Windows, etc.

      Such a shame that it is mired in controversy.

    • Psyhackological
      3•9 months ago

      Wth is that, that is the most anti-idiomatic code I have ever seen

      https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/master/src%2Fplatform%2Flinux.rs#L176

      pub fn get_cursor() -> ResultType<Option<u64>> {
    let mut res = None;
    DISPLAY.with(|conn| {
        if let Ok(d) = conn.try_borrow_mut() {
            if !d.is_null() {
                unsafe {
                    let img = XFixesGetCursorImage(*d);
                    if !img.is_null() {
                        res = Some((*img).cursor_serial as u64);
                        XFree(img as _);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });
    Ok(res)
}

      I’m not an expert but this seems wrong.

  • @pop@lemmy.ml
    16•9 months ago

    Itsfoss is blogspam and often have many mistakes and wrong info. People should really stop posting links from them.

  • @gibdos@lemmy.world
    8•9 months ago

    Yeah it’s pretty awesome. My only gripe with it is the fact that it is super annoying when you want to send a client with your self-hosted urls to a customer.

    You can either awkardly add it to the filename or you need to fork the client and build it yourself. Kind of sucks that the easier custom client function is stuck behind their subscription.

  • @ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    5•9 months ago

    I tried it and it’s works exactly like Anydesk, except it’s 5 times slower than Anydesk at least that’s on their server, I know I can host it myself but I don’t think I have the skill to set it up

    • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      1•9 months ago

      Have you tried changing the default view from Columns to List? IMO it makes the UI much better. Then you can add in a more details about each PC on the main view. Make is very useful if you have a lot of computers you are managing.

      You can also switch from the left bar interface to top bar interface. That looks better to me. Also dark mode.

  • @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2•9 months ago

    I was hesitant to open this post because I already know about rustdesk, but eventually I did to see the community’s opinion on it. I’m so glad that I did because this is terrible!

    I think more people should hear about all of this