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Is this Parallels Desktop but for Linux? If so, this could be interesting however, what about graphics intensive applications? What does this offer that Proton or Wine doesn’t solve?


Sort of, but nowhere as polished.

For graphics intensive apps, you can get GPU passthrough working with some effort[1] but it's not really end-user friendly.

Also, I wouldn't say it's an alternative to Proton, in fact it's probably worse than Proton because of the limited refresh rate, colors, and added latency of the RDP protocol that it uses to display the desktop.

But it can be an alternative to Wine, since you're able to run certain apps that can't run in Wine, like Office 365, Adobe etc. This is where it shines, for people who are dependent on productivity apps like Office.

[1] https://github.com/dockur/windows/issues/22


Ewww, RDP… thanks, that explains all I need to know. It’s a virtualbox.




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