Winboat GUI is notoriously badly written. Spinner animation peaks CPU like there is no tomorrow. But this looks like GUI part is also not native. Is it elektron again?
(I am stupid, article says it is Qt. So should be decent)
It’s another WinBoat, this time with a Podman-first approach.
It’s Virtualized Windows running an RDP session per-app, something VMWare has offered forever (Unity) and Virtual PC had too (forget what it’s called).
Not a bad idea, mind - I use Unity mode today to run apps that only work on older versions of Windows.
So it’s not a “Linux Subsystem for Windows” but a virtual Windows PC with a Unity-like mode, so it’s as resource-intensive as any VM.
That said, I think it’s great someone put it together!
That is literally what wsl2 is though. It boots a full linux vm and wslg for GUIs is just rdp as well.
Sounds similar to WinBoat then
Or like WinApps
Basically WinBoat again, but with Podman instead of Docker.
And winboat already works well on podman, so really it’s just winboat again.
LSW?
