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heavyset_goyesterday at 7:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's just a VM + an RDP connection in rootless mode. You can do it, but RDP is flaky in rootless mode.

I'm currently using a similar setup for Office. You lose drag and drop, and you will be restarting the RDP client over and over again.

It's a "solution" if you're willing to put up with jank.


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specprocyesterday at 7:43 PM

Thanks, I see stuff like this and think, "well if it worked well everyone would use it all the time".

Affinity is something I use occasionally enough to be able to put up with a bit of jank.

Appreciate the response, good to know what I'm getting into before diving into something.

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mijoharasyesterday at 8:21 PM

Out of interest why do you need to?

I've always been fine with libre office/Google docs since moving to Linux, but I'm not a heavy office user.

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