@StarkRG nodds in agreeement In a #classroom-like #setup we'd more likely see some centralized, self-hosted #managment solution like #Landscape or #RustDesk being used.

• I can see why they did this: It's clearly inspired by tools like #AnyDesk and I do have to applaud them for that.

And if this acts similar to #WebCall and merely acts as a "Rendrevous-Server" then traffic and thus costs should be quite low.

• Still I expect this to later become #enshittified with an ever more expensive #subscription model like with #TeamViewer.

I'd still hope they #OpenSource the #Backend so that there's another competitor to #Dayon and #RustDesk available...

• In the meantime just setting up a sudo admin user with #Pubkey-only auth on #SSH is likely the way to do some admin stuff.

Maybe one day @RaspberryPi will even add #PXE - #NetBoot capabilities to their #RaspberryPi and thus allow for #DisklessWorkstation - Setups, saving a crapton on #MicroSD cards that are prone to get lost and/or stolen...

@http @Rob298 precisely that!

• Also most corp/org/edu networks only backup the $HOME directory and sometimes even allow syncing them across distros & keep them across version updates, so all the settings, addons and stuff remaib where they are: in said /home/ subfolders!

• In fact most places with a sizeable #Linux-#Desktop landscape will just keep the /home/ directory on a redundant, #iSCSI-SAN and #netboot their #DisklessWorkstation|s via #iPXE, as this way burglars stealing devices most likely end up with a locked-down machine (anything but booting the preset network targets won't work without admin password!) that is a paperweight to them and espechally no data, which is crucial when it comes to #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec.

Cuz it's way easier to secure 1-5 server rooms than thousands of publicly accessible machines on multiple campuses.

• It's also a real godsent for technicians as they can just login / boot into a diagnostics system and quickly see what's wrong if a system has issues (if they don't already see it in their dashboard that collects logs, telling them they need to replace the CPU fan or clean a machine as it's overheating)...

@Jain It's just that if one uses #REDCODE - #RAW in production, one better have something that can outgun a RAID-01 of 8 NVMe's with 4 PCIe lanes each...

Because most #DisklessWorkstation setups are with negligible I/O for reasons.

And yes, I did in fact design some actual setup that does diskless with high IOPS, but that project blew 8 digits just on hardware alone and they certainly didn't pay MSRP...