Does Chrome Remote Desktop run on Linux?

Google's help pages list Mac, Windows and Linux as the systems you can set up for remote access, and provide a 64-bit Debian installer file for the Linux side. Connecting to another computer happens through the browser, which works on Linux like anywhere else.

Connecting from Linux to your old Windows PC is the easy direction and needs nothing installed. Open the Chrome Remote Desktop site in Chrome or Chromium, sign in with the same Google account, and your machines are listed.

Letting people connect to the Linux machine is the fiddly direction. Google's instructions involve creating a small settings file in your home folder to tell it which desktop to show, and the result can behave oddly on systems using Wayland. It works, but it is the part where a nervous switcher gets stuck.

If remote access is mainly about helping family members, AnyDesk has a proper Linux app and is simpler to set up at both ends. Remmina is the better choice if the far end is a Windows PC using Windows Remote Desktop.