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Thank you for these details. When I looked into doing it once on a modern system and stopped when window server entered the story. I’ve been hoping there might

Thank you for these details. When I looked into doing it once on a modern system and stopped when window server entered the story. I’ve been hoping there might be a simple solution but that had me stumble upon Parallels RAS which I’ve been considering doing an evaluation of. https://www.parallels.com/products/ras/remote-application-server/ https://www.parallels.com/products/ras/remote-application-se... My primary battlestation system (not gaming but for business) is 8X4k monitors on a custom Linux system driven by 2 high end GPUs. What I’d ideally like to have is many Win11 pro application windows managed by my X11 windows manager.

genewitch 2y ago
looks like microsoft has jumped into this area since i last looked (eesh, 16 years ago is what i was basing my info on!): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/microsoft-desktop-optimization-pack/appv-v4/how-to-manually-install-the-application-virtualization-client https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/... https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/downloads/technetmagazine/nov2008issue/34_41_Vrtlsn_GttgStrtdwMSApp_des2ar.pdf https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/download... so it looks like, in addition to the method i mentioned, you can also virtualize the applications within "App-V" which is like hyper-v for apps (is anyone catching all of this? is this thing on?). Microsoft made a firecracker or whatever for windows apps and no one told me? edit: i'm shocked there's not a kitsch-y name for this like "Windowless Office Suite" for on-prem office that's virtualized for app-v... Someone at microsoft should pay me if they use this.
- alchemist1e9 2y ago
  Quick skim seems to suggest the client to that system is Windows only. I’m hoping for a Linux client which apparently the commercial Parallels RAS provides. I think MacOS is even more hopeless than Windows for a per window or seamless remote GUI application solution. For Linux I use Xpra which honestly with GPU server and client acceleration can feel like magic. The dream for me would be a Linux based system for display using an X11 window manager to manage remote GUI application windows from all 3 platforms from multiple systems, all GPU accelerated on both ends. Apple seems to have a particular hatred for the idea of anyone using their OS remotely for whatever reason, though Parsec works quite well for me, though I’ve heard there is a sunshine+moonlight approach that does even better than Parsec …
  - genewitch 2y ago
    https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rdp-for-native-looking-windows-applications.1984261/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rd... rdesktop has a "-A" flag for seamless mode which looks like it does what you want. I'm telling you we had that working 16 years ago via AWS - the AWS side was running windows but there wasn't any reason we had to be [running windows] on the client side. I merely mentioned that microsoft apparently didn't rest on their laurels with msts, they now support even more thin client mechanisms.

genewitch 2y ago

looks like microsoft has jumped into this area since i last looked (eesh, 16 years ago is what i was basing my info on!): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/microsoft-desktop-optimization-pack/appv-v4/how-to-manually-install-the-application-virtualization-client https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/... https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/downloads/technetmagazine/nov2008issue/34_41_Vrtlsn_GttgStrtdwMSApp_des2ar.pdf https://download.microsoft.com/documents/uk/technet/download... so it looks like, in addition to the method i mentioned, you can also virtualize the applications within "App-V" which is like hyper-v for apps (is anyone catching all of this? is this thing on?). Microsoft made a firecracker or whatever for windows apps and no one told me? edit: i'm shocked there's not a kitsch-y name for this like "Windowless Office Suite" for on-prem office that's virtualized for app-v... Someone at microsoft should pay me if they use this.

alchemist1e9 2y ago
Quick skim seems to suggest the client to that system is Windows only. I’m hoping for a Linux client which apparently the commercial Parallels RAS provides. I think MacOS is even more hopeless than Windows for a per window or seamless remote GUI application solution. For Linux I use Xpra which honestly with GPU server and client acceleration can feel like magic. The dream for me would be a Linux based system for display using an X11 window manager to manage remote GUI application windows from all 3 platforms from multiple systems, all GPU accelerated on both ends. Apple seems to have a particular hatred for the idea of anyone using their OS remotely for whatever reason, though Parsec works quite well for me, though I’ve heard there is a sunshine+moonlight approach that does even better than Parsec …
- genewitch 2y ago
  https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rdp-for-native-looking-windows-applications.1984261/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-using-seamless-rd... rdesktop has a "-A" flag for seamless mode which looks like it does what you want. I'm telling you we had that working 16 years ago via AWS - the AWS side was running windows but there wasn't any reason we had to be [running windows] on the client side. I merely mentioned that microsoft apparently didn't rest on their laurels with msts, they now support even more thin client mechanisms.