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RustDesk is really good but I can't get certain decisions / limitations they have. For absolutely no reason, this, only seems to work under Windows... or are they trying to push people into the Pro Server / build your own which will ultimately require you to buy a license for their software (okay reasonable) AND developer accounts so you can sign macOS binaries (not okay).
They also document scripts to bootstrap clients on other OSses. And I don't think you need Pro to build rustdesk yourself - they even document the process.
The one big thing they do hide behind Pro though, is authentication for the server side. With the free version, if your server is open to the internet, then anyone who knows the IP can use it to relay their clients as well.
They still need to know the key. If you publicly distribute your config, that's a problem. But IMO one even the pro version couldn't solve.