I sat with users on our own setup as a technology demonstration, used the system as my primary desktop only for several months, and I have used other setups whe

I sat with users on our own setup as a technology demonstration, used the system as my primary desktop only for several months, and I have used other setups where I needed high security (mil/gov) paired with high degrees of access using crypto authN from another CTO. Our technology demonstration operated beautifully but in the end we decided not to go with it because (1) we needed to rearchitect our SMB storage to centralize it, so there were no round trips or long distance SMB (2) Our network performance could be inconsistent at times due to jitter, which was not a problem with the solution, but the underlying network performance as specified, vs as-built, for some recent WAN enhancements. A colleague at another location built a solution that I utilized as a desktop for sometime. Despite being ~1400 miles away and over our Center to Center network, performance was comparable to my engineering workstation, was always patched, excellent graphics performance, and was highly accessible provided strong authN. There were some substantial differences in both of these: (1) No oversubscription (2) Fully capable of handling bootstorms (3) Dedicated hardware / high performance VDIs (4) Not viewed as a cost avoidance but as an access enhancer (5) Optimized for expensive engineers / scientists where labor rates are the overwhelming cost, so 5 minutes of extra productivity more than pays for a solution.