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by Vipsy 252 days ago
This looks nice, WinBoat gives teams a simple way to use linux for everyone, without losing access to Windows apps when needed. There’s no need for fancy cloud setups or switching between lots of devices—just one system and quick access to what works.

Onboarding is easier for everyone, and IT does less work with only one setup to care for. This means companies can pick what’s best without making things messy or complicated.
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d3Xt3r 252 days ago
For what you're describing, there are already Enterprise-grade solutions that's even simpler and more robust, such as Azure Virtual Desktop with RemoteApps, and the even more mature and battle-tested Citrix XenApps / Cloud.

Like for my work, I use a Linux laptop, and access our Windows-only apps and environments via Citrix and it works really well. And a good chunk of our apps are cloud-based anyways so we just need a web browser to access them.

I also own a MacBook and have an Android phone, and I can access my work environment from all my devices. So at least for our workplace, the end-user OS has been largely irrelevant.

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smt88 252 days ago
This reads like AI and almost none of it makes sense. Why would a Windows desktop fleet be more heterogeneous than a Linux one? Why would Linux be an easier on-boarding experience?

Orgs use Windows because non-technical users expect it and execs don't get fired for choosing Microsoft.

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whywhywhywhy 252 days ago
Onboarding non-technical people to a computer that’s running half the apps in a different is virtualized and all the things that can go wrong with that sounds a nightmare.
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whywhywhywhy 252 days ago
How you gonna justify buying a windows license for each user and then not just using that and forcing them to use some interface they’re unfamiliar with.

I get the vision but ultimately if they need to run windows apps for work, just have them run windows.

There’s places where people should consider Linux but that isn’t one of them.

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smt88 252 days ago
Incredibly shady of you to rewrite your whole comment (or have your bot change the tone) because it was obviously AI-written before
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