Rick Krejci · Sep 5, 2025, 04:45 PM
aches to do so than switching to Win11.
I installed the new version and it is OK but I do not care for change.
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Just need to install the new remote desktop app from the MS Store
I’ll check this out. Thanks! However, my issues are referring to direct alert messages I now get from MS each and every time I open RD from my Windows 11 machine. This tells me that MS has no intention of supporting any RD for anything more than the short term. So finding that MS is offering a “new” version on their Store confuses me. My experience with MS over the years does not give me hope. Desktop sharing in general smells like something that MS would want to discourage, for their fear that the masses of their customers will either misuse it, or open themselves up to IT attacks to their systems and data. RD, initially a function included years ago was something that their service engineers could use to help clients remotely to fix issues. That it could become a useful function for regular day-to-day users of a computer is probably something not fully grasped at the time, nor the implications. In this litigious society, I have no doubt this is a headache they now anticipate causing them all sorts of problems.
I am no computer expert. However, I have always built my own machines and dealt with “most” of my issues by myself. Unfortunately, networking in the MS environment has always been a mystery. Partly because of the way it is implemented, but certainly also having to do with the poor documentation that MS provides to the unsavvy to work it. When I lived in Seattle, I was lucky enough to have friends who worked at MS and after I failed to get some network issue to resolve using MS’s own online help, I could call up and have my friend network into my computer via RD and watch as he resolved the issues. Sometimes it would take a fair amount of time. But often as I watched the solution pass before my vision, I recall the discontinuity of what worked and what the online MS resources tried to have me do.
My next learning experience will be to reactivate my old and still nice MS surface laptop/tablet with a Linux distro and learn how to escape the MS world. Or even if I can do so. I know that PI, Gimp and the like are designed for Linux, and those are my primary desktop activities. To be able to work in an evironment that does not constantly ask me to remember to sign up for a cloud account, MS account and the like I hope will be a breath of fresh air. To have an OS that does not automatically and without permission upload and install new versions of its OS, yes even though I specifically asked said OS to delay any new installs for 5 weeks! To start up an imaging session with my small isolated mount/camera controlling nuc without notifying me that a new update to the OS was uploaded and must now be installed, with considerable delay will be a breath of fresh air.
I know that Linux does RD, even to windows machines. Now if I can get my small nucs to run Linux and the services that allow me to do the mount control, image control, etc, even if using a shell to run things like NINA, then I will switch everything over. But I hear that this is not workable at this time. But I will use my old Linux Surface to test that myself.