[FEATURE] - Resolve slow PowerShell installation of the agent

[mattish91]

Somewhat an issue
The client installer takes a long time to download from any URL.

The solution
Running the client installer command in PowerShell one-liner command should include this:
$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'; [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12; {Original command}

This will hide the download progress, but it will also be much faster than current state.

Describe alternatives you've considered
I consider adding that manually every time i need to install the agent on a new computer to make it super fast.

Additional context
The above mentioned code resolves the issue of a slow download, even tho it's just a small installation program.

[bitbound]

I actually had this in there up until somewhat recently. I removed it because I wanted to see the progress in pwsh 7+, where the bug doesn't exist. Whoops.

I'll add it back in. 😅

[mattish91]

Sorry for spamming you with all feature requests and stuff, just figured i might add some of my favorite things about remotely (actually doubling down with ControlR on some devices right now) xD

Awesome to see that Wayland get's some loving too! 😄

[bitbound]

Sorry for spamming you with all feature requests and stuff

No problem at all. I'm glad to see the activity and interest! 🙂

Awesome to see that Wayland get's some loving too! 😄

Yeah, with Wayland now the default display server on most major distributions, I thought it wise to make it feel like a first-class citizen.

As much as possible, anyway. Avalonia UI had a good blog post about why it's more challenging to "support Linux" than most people realize: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/bringing-wayland-support-to-avalonia

The security-first mindset of Wayland makes things challenging, especially with unattended access. I still have some work to do there.

Also, I'm currently in transition from Windows to Linux on my primary laptop. I've boiled it down to either Kubuntu or Fedora KDE. So there's some amount of self-interest for Wayland support. 😉

[mattish91]

Also, I'm currently in transition from Windows to Linux on my primary laptop. I've boiled it down to either Kubuntu or Fedora KDE. So there's some amount of self-interest for Wayland support. 😉

That's awesome! (Running all my Linux in VM's right now, and if it wasn't for the requirement of Photoshop, M365 i would probably switch too. Unfortunately the current solutions of running WinBoat doesn't quite exist for me as i have a low-end Surface Laptop Go 2 (8GB ram) not quite enough to run WinBoat in my experience.

Anyways, remotely > VM's have been the way to go (after i replaced Wayland with X11) on all "devices". Im lucky to have 256GB ram in my server at home (decommissioned Dell R720xd from previous workplace).