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Yeah - I just want to be able to run Office in my Linux desktop - I don't care if the windows VM instance takes an extra 8gb ram, I just want it to work seamlessly



microsoft has a monetary incentive to never allow that. although you can do something like that with rdp in xorg


Parallels does it on macOS and it works. Windows also provides a way to RDP individual applications so it's "just" a matter of the client hiding the seam.


that is what i said. the issue is that freerdp (which can do single window / application) only supports xorg - not sure about xwayland




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