Hello all,

I’m planning to install Linux Mint on the notebooks of some relatives as it’s not compatible with Windows 11 and thus not getting security updates anymore. They are absolutely not tech savvy and only using very basic stuff (web browser, print documents, maybe low level office stuff). Still I’m looking for a way to support them with some kind of remote control software if they have an issue. On Windows I liked Teamviewer for it’s simplicity, they can double click the icon and tell me the code that is displayed and that’s it. Is there something similar for Linux which doesn’t require complex setup on their end? FOSS is a plus, but not a must have.

Regards, rbn

  • rbn@sopuli.xyzOP
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    12 hours ago

    That sounds like an interesting fallback and better than Windows 11. Do you need a new licence for that or can you just change from Windows 10 Pro to IOT LTSC?

    • doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml
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      39 minutes ago

      Someone already said massgrave, and they’re right, but I wanna be 100% clear: Microsoft can’t take these away. If they did then smart fridges would be complaining about how they’re not registered, massive enterprises would have to completely change how they provision systems, pc manufacturers would have to change their processes and even if it was as simple as a change to the generic disk image they ship (it’s not) they’d have to handle all the systems out there in the world.

      And

      Even if Microsoft went ahead anyway and removed the ability to use some method (like they did with kms38, which had nothing to do with mas and everything to do with addressing the end of the Unix epoch) there are methods they cant effectively remove like hwid.

      Anyway, go to the massgrave page about 21h2 iot ltsc and read up.

      • rbn@sopuli.xyzOP
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        10 hours ago

        Thanks, but this seems to be rather an unofficial hack, no? If Microsoft decides to block this approach, the setup may cause trouble out of a sudden which I’d like to avoid as my relatives live quite far away.

        • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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          6 hours ago

          well yeah, it surely is. win10 iot ltsc itself is defo getting support till 2032, but massgrave’s hwid/tsforge may get blocked at some point, though most people highly doubt that since m$ doesn’t really care at this point. (heck, the massgrave repos are hosted on m$ owned github) in addition to that, massgrave’s hwid mode generates an hwid on microsoft’s servers just like genuine windows licenses, so i’m pretty sure it’ll remain working, even if the method to generate hwid gets blocked somehow…

          i do believe switching to a gnu/linux distro is a much better choice, but this is also an option if your relatives really prefer using windows or need to.