With proper configuration Mikrotik can do preety much everything network related. Awesome product and os.

I used Simple apps in the past but lost track of them. Now i know why. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Indeed we need diversity of the ecosystems.

Yes, and it is crazy that Apple/Google want us to think that AppStore, OS and ContentFilter are not mutually orthogonal concepts.

it works and is getting better. still no mainstream adoption though.

Cool. I might go back to it sometime some time! I really liked the routing protocol and the ease of setting up services for it.

Windows GUI for Syncthing named SyncTrayzor is also actively developed. https://github.com/GermanCoding/SyncTrayzor After SyncTtrayzor stopped being developed in 2021, it just worked along the updating SyncThing as backend. Now that Syncthing v2 came out, old one is not compatible anymore, but new one picked up the mantle.

I love this software. I am using it to sync files across different computers and different people for years now.

Sophia script[0] is amazing for debloating windows.

You need to take a bit of time to configure what you want it to do, then run it on every computer you configure.

[0] https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

Love this litle app. Author did this once before. I hope he changes his mind.

I would hate to need to look for a replacement.

Since it's open source, the replacement is to keep this software up-to-date yourself.

I tried a few solutions a few years ago to see if there are any alternatives to MS RDP, but at that time i found them all to be lacking. Mostly remote screen was not as responsive as RDP.

A simple test was to play Youtube video on remote machine and compare results of all Linux solutions with MS RDP. None came close.

I hope things changed in past few years if anyone knows?

Me and a few people made ourselves some weird "VDI"-like workstations as VMware virtual machines, not that long time ago. Those run Ubuntu. I was fine with plain ssh, but my boss pushed his setup to the limits and used that as his main computer. He even gave away company laptop and used only private one to RDP into that (through some corporate vdi auth, but still RDP).

On that vm side it was xrdp. He had multimonitor setup working, sound, video, he even used zoom daily.

Client was windows, it passed through camera and so on.

I could not tell I was using something remotely, even if I was just using mouse and keyboard, sitting directly in front of those monitors.

One gotcha was that these were very fast VMs on fast network.

Indeed. Markdown files seperated into folders. I organize them into topics. Easy to search with a lot of possible customizations. And even setup without customizations is optically pleasing and functional