Rustdesk, I use it for work
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Not open source, but AnyDesk is another option that does exactly what you want.
There was a Flatpak, but the maintainer quit, so, you'll probably have to install it directly from their official site.
Anyway, RustDesk, as mentioned by other comment, is essentially the open source alternative to AnyDesk, so maybe look into that first.
x11vnc -find will find the first X desktop session and start a server on the first available port starting at 5900. By default, it'll accept a single connection from any address. The server stops when the client disconnects unless the -forever option is set.
You can send the user a script with all required options already set, or start it remotely through SSH.
Another option that’s pretty much perfect as long as you don’t need to provide remote support for macs is Remotely (https://github.com/immense/Remotely). You can selfhost it and it works kind of like teamviewer, so pretty simple from the client standpoint.
anydesk is pretty good. rustdesk is also pretty good but kinda laggy from my experience
This seems very suspicious
Just tech support, a remote log login works be suspicious. My kids share screens all the time.
I think you can screen share with discord.