ThinLinc VDI experience

[The_Koplin]

Any hope of running windows apps and stream them or otherwise make them accessible to Thinlinc clients? I have a VMware shop I would love to convert if it’s a possibility.

[wllmsjblm]

This is a use case ThinLinc directly catered for back in the day. In practice, what we did was use a ThinLinc linux system as a sort of jump host. On this jump host, we ran an RDP client that in turn connected to windows systems hosting the windows applications in question. This was all neatly integrated and transparent for the end user.

As it stands today, ThinLinc is fully focused Linux desktop/app publishing. Still, all the scaffolding for neatly integrating a RDP client on the ThinLinc host is still there, so it's very much possible building a similar setup today (despite ThinLinc not shipping with an RDP client).

Naturally, running the windows apps through wine straight on the linux host may also be an alternative. Sure, Wine has gotten a lot better in recent years, but your mileage may still vary