I see it's time for the bimonthly reinvention of VirtualBox and VMWare's seamless modes from a few faceless techies on GitHub and designed for people who can't be bothered to use WINE or VirtualBox.

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torginus 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And unfortunately it has become the norm in open-source to push out shiny-looking projects with pretty logos and UX but shoddy underlying technology and deceptive/overstated claims (looking at you Tauri).

Thing thing uses RDP for communication which was designed for remotely administering servers over low speed networks.

VirtualBox in contrast integrates at the driver level, and allows you to share the underlying GPU buffers, giving you a native experience that works for things like games or heavy apps. It integrates the Linux filesystem on a driver level as well.

	▲	jstanley 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's just progress. Things that used to be hard become easy. Things that used to be impossible become hard. Hard things become easy when for example it becomes feasible to connect to RDP instead of mucking about at the driver level. It will be more reliable but less performant.

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fsh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except these seamless modes have been broken for many years. Also using a containerized Windows means one doesn't have to fiddle with the insane Windows 11 setup process and TPM issues.

	▲	torginus 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For those of us who have used containerized Windows in prod, it is its on kind of hell
	▲	jopsen an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What is containerized Windows?

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prox 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As someone who is looking to go Linux, do most windows apps work now through Wine or VirtualBox ? I know Valve did a lot of work for games.

It’s been 4 years since I even took a good look at it.

	▲	mlok 24 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		About games compatibility made possible by Steam, check Proton DB : https://www.protondb.com/
	▲	MattPalmer1086 an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Just anecdata, but the few things I use via Wine have all worked fine. I use yabridge so I can use windows VSTs in my Linux DAW. Games (if they don't use kernel level anti cheat systems) are all flawless with Proton. But, I honestly don't have a need to use much other windows only software. Almost everything I need to use has Linux versions, or alternatives that fit my needs.
	▲	SapporoChris 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Most things work great. There are some niche things that do not work so well. Example: SteamVR,Vive VR Hub, some AntiCheat for games.
	▲	Jnr 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		A lot of them do, but for almost everything there are native alternatives. I haven't used Wine directly in years, only indirectly through Steam.