WinBoat lets you run any Windows application on Linux with seamless desktop integration. Elegant interface, automated installs, filesystem integration, and native OS-level windows.
I’ll probably play with this over the weekend but it appears to be a lot of effort for not much reward. The only advantage I see over a Windows VM is that you get Windows Applications listed in your Linux Program Menu. I guess the “shared folder” thing but you can replicate that on your own pretty easily.
From a resource perspective it’s identical to a Win11VM because the docker container still has to run a complete Windows instance for the apps to work. It’s just that you interface with the apps directly (mostly) via fancy RDP instead of firing up the VM and doing everything through Windows Desktop.
You could probably accomplish the same thing by running a Windows RDS server in a VM, publishing the installed apps, and using Remmina to access them.
As someone with family members who aren’t very techy and have moved to linux, this is huge. I think you, as someone who is familiar with tech, are missing the perspective that normal people can’t be bothered to run a VM, or even launch an app using WINE.
I’ll probably play with this over the weekend but it appears to be a lot of effort for not much reward. The only advantage I see over a Windows VM is that you get Windows Applications listed in your Linux Program Menu. I guess the “shared folder” thing but you can replicate that on your own pretty easily.
From a resource perspective it’s identical to a Win11VM because the docker container still has to run a complete Windows instance for the apps to work. It’s just that you interface with the apps directly (mostly) via fancy RDP instead of firing up the VM and doing everything through Windows Desktop.
You could probably accomplish the same thing by running a Windows RDS server in a VM, publishing the installed apps, and using Remmina to access them.
As someone with family members who aren’t very techy and have moved to linux, this is huge. I think you, as someone who is familiar with tech, are missing the perspective that normal people can’t be bothered to run a VM, or even launch an app using WINE.