WinApps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.
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- Virtualization
- Compatibility Layer
- Run Windows software
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- windows-on-linux
- exe-on-linux
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What is WinApps?
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration for right clicking on files of specific mime types to open them.
WinApps was created as an easy, one command way to include apps running inside a VM (or on any RDP server) directly into GNOME as if they were native applications. WinApps works by:
• Running a Windows RDP server in a background VM container • Checking the RDP server for installed applications such as Microsoft Office • If those programs are installed, it creates shortcuts leveraging FreeRDP for both the CLI and the GNOME tray • Files in your home directory are accessible via the \tsclient\home mount inside the VM • You can right click on any files in your home directory to open with an application, too
Comments and Reviews
Unless you commit to using only WinApps (and the QEMU/KVM that it depends on) to the exclusion of VirtualBox or VMWare, WinApps interferes majorly with both of the latter's ability to RDP into VMs.
Also, uninstalling WinApps does NOT reverse the modifications that it does to the your (Linux) system. It litters the system with virtsh.io and other similar sh.it which keep running (like) d(a)emons in the background. It's a bl**dy pain reversing all this.
And you want to reverse it because WinApps doesn't work! Unless it's the only virtualiser (hypervisor/emulator) in your (Linux PC's) lap!
I'm not sure how many people would make that kind of commitment to WinApps and uninstall VirtualBox/VMWare instead.
Verdict? Unless WinApps learns to play nicely with other (industry dominating) virtualisers installed on the same PC, it should expect a teeny tiny userbase.