Is the best, free (not necessarily open source), email desktop client still Thunderbird?
I've been happiest with KMail, FWIW.
Our list of free software for remote work
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Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#32No mention of Jitsi for video conferencing?
There's a free to use hosted service or host your own via a 10min install including https setup (runs fine on a $3 2GB Ubuntu VPS)
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#33any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.
Have not used it in a couple years but GoToMyPC worked pretty well when I was using it.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#34No mention of Jitsi for video conferencing? There's a free to use hosted service or host your own via a 10min install including https setup (runs fine on a $3 2GB Ubuntu VPS) https://jitsi.org/
They do mention Jitsi. From the article:
> At Purism we use Matrix for team chat, 1 to 1 calls, video conferencing via Jitsi (open source video conferencing), adhoc file sharing and all our community chat channels.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#35any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.
I've been using Parsec, it's marketed as a game streaming service but it just streams your whole screen at a very good rate. It works perfectly for me.
Before I tried Windows Remote Desktop and TeamViewer and had issues with both. I specially had issues with the mouse not being replicated properly so 3D software bugged out.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#36any recommendations on remote desktop? I was using Anydesk and now it freezes every 10 seconds on a lot of my instances the past few months. Need to move to something else.
I am an Arch Linux laptop user. Plain RDS through Remmina works great for Windows machines. When not usable, I found AnyDesk to work fine-ish (but it changes system keyboard settings, which is annoying). I can't use TeamViewer which still doesn't support Wayland.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#37Yesterday I discovered Jamulus for playing music together online. It has very low latency and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux.
The time for sound to go from your instrument to the ear of the other participants should be 30ms at most (equal to standing 10 meters apart).
I think low latency would also help make video conferences less tiring.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#38Is the best, free (not necessarily open source), email desktop client still Thunderbird?
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#39No mention of Jitsi for video conferencing? There's a free to use hosted service or host your own via a 10min install including https setup (runs fine on a $3 2GB Ubuntu VPS) https://jitsi.org/
Also, missing open-source Restyaboard as Trello alternative.
Re: Our list of free software for remote work
#40Not sure if we are in a tech, “like to fiddle with things” echo chamber, but I would not recommend any of these tools to a team in general (even if it was a small product team).. slack and zoom and the likes (who all have free tiers) I find much better, simpler and successful to get started with.
Setting aside the fact that this is not about a "free tier", what do you do when you have a team of 10 people and you surpass 10,000 messages? "Sorry, we're using the free tier, so that information is gone." That's not a serious solution. (Granted, it works just fine to coordinate lunch plans.)