Awingu: Simpler Citrix alternative
Complexity and price are not the problems with Citrix or any VDI solution.<p>The whole concept doesn’t work. I have spent years and years dealing with miserable staff who have to sit on the end of a mucked up, crawling semi paralysed Citrix deployment because someone ticked a corporate IT box and got a pat on the back of it. They literally have their potential productivity halved on a good day. Not to mention the pain of trying to get some desktop software I’ve pushed out to standard windows machines fine working with some fucked up implementation of partial profile redirection that some MSP thought was a fantastic idea.<p>Really 99% of Citrix and terminal installs I see these days are box ticking and a false promise of cost savings through density and centralisation.<p>The end story is an end user trying to use a LOB app in chrome with about 200Mb of RAM at their disposal with the CPU and IO rammed at 100% while the MSP who sold them this pile sells them the lie that  it’s the LOB vendor who’s at fault.<p>Edit: AWS Workspaces is just as bad. It’s like working with oven gloves on after a heavy night drinking.