10mo ago

It is called 🍷

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It's really more like Remote Desktop+. It has some additional "features" (slight retch) on top of traditional Remote Desktop features.
Let's wait and see if it's actually more secure than traditional Remote Desktop.
(and I'd still rather use Wine)
- Did they invent X11 Forwarding over the network?
  
  Btw. when we get wayland forwarding over Network?
  
  X11 can render individual windows (Xclients) through the network on another Xserver since decades. With XPRA you can even buffer them, to move them from one Xserver to another or make sure they survive network disconnect. It's very cool, but not widely used.
  
  Yes, the ssh -X flag forwards it.
- Bottles and boxes are basically the Windows app.
  
  No, it's just remote. Remote desktop is now also called Windows, also the operating system you are connecting to is called Windows.
  Gnome has relatively good rdp support, so with this you could use Windows (the app) on Windows (the os) to connect to you Linux machine running Gnome.
  It seems deliberately confusing naming is working as expected, Microsoft marketing team should get extra raise.
I thought this was dumb as fuck, but I think I understand what Microsoft is trying to do here.
What might not be obvious is that this "Windows" app is for iOS, Android and Linux - yes, it's a replacement for remote desktop but it's specifically a remote desktop app to connect to Windows machines.
So while I still this this rebranding is entirely unnecessary, I can see that they are trying to clearly distinguish "I'm not on windows and I need to do something on windows so I'll use the windows app for that" .
It also means less confusion when "remote desktop" doesn't let you connect to your Mac or whatever.
- One year from now: web search "Windows App broken" and then starting cutting myself.
  
  Something tells me the community forums will still refer to it as remote desktop or RDP anyway
What the fuck is that title
- It's a remote desktop client, so it won't. OP read only the title of the article
As I understood this is some remote running layer, while WINE is an emulator.
- WINE is an emulator.
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  Wine Is Nothing but an Emulator
  
  Wine Is Naturally an Emulator
- Oh dear cheddar, what does WINE stand for?
  
  Wine Is Not (an) Emulator
  
  Wine's Independent New Energy
I was like, this has to be fake. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/microsoft-releases-a-new-windows-app-called-windows-app-for-running-windows-apps/
HyperV4every1 version whateverthefuckitis
But not all Windows apps can be run via Wine, at least some apps related to some tools I’ve had to use were not available
- Then spin up Windows in a VM. It is painless and has unattended installation
  
  Yup that’s what I do
  Edit to say that there’s some mouse drivers which don’t work in a VM, at least from my experience but maybe I didnt try hard enough
  
  Is this like windows in a window, windows in the cloud, or a dual boot situation?
- Ya but they won't run in that app either I bet (like photoshop or 3dsmax).
  
  Maybe, I’d like to see if there’s a difference, but you’re probably right
- True I wanted to run affinity I couldn't do it I apparently need a custom version of wine
- You can if it's a protable software, you can "acquire" portable softwares on appnee
Let me guess? CLOUD VMS? "Emulation" tries the most generic app: Doesnt work. Office apps will be the only functioning apps.
- To be fair MS Office fully working on Linux is about the only thing we really need to make it completely viable for businesses.
  
  The Desktop apps will be replaced with web apps ASAP anyway. Well, I think, as soon they think they have ported enough of the features to the web version.
  Are there native arm versions, or are those already webViews?
Sounds awful lot like Citrix...
Yo dawg…
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I hope its so they can finally end the legacy support for all the win98 software and end all "settings is actually a folder" non-sense.

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