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    3 days ago

    Probably shit like NinjaRMM

    They only support Ubuntu for their rdesktop app, Someone pulled it kicking and screaming into nixpkgs, i built a flake around it. It’s stable, but the day they release a breaking change, I’m at the mercy of an unpaid, unnamed package maintainer to make it work again or take a stab at it myself. Or run it in wine, or run it in a windows VM. or build it out an ubuntu docker and x11 forward it back.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah but even then a VM isnt crazy terrible for those. I had a job where i was running my pc through 4 different vms before i could reach the users PC (which was running on a VM)

      Also wine

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        3 days ago

        Yeah, I had a Windows VM for them, it was the ultimate in compatibility, but it was another thing to deal with on admin/updates. Ubuntu docker images with maintainers bridges the gap in all ways except maybe a little sketch on supply chain security