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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/10/2025

📐 Early GPU Acceleration Progress - Part 3 AutoDesk Fusion working with OpenGL backend. This is really big for CAD folks. AutoDesk plans to remove OpenGL in new versions of Fusion, but I think you can keep using the current one and have it working. #winboat #linux #opengl #autodesk #fusion #CAD

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 21/10/2025

Early GPU Acceleration Progress - Part 2 D3D11 (DirectX 11) through WineD3D, hardware accelerated with OpenGL on a single GPU through paravirtualized drivers Performance is not astonishing (yet) but miles better than anything software rendering could do #winboat #linux #windows #opengl

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 20/10/2025

Early OpenGL acceleration progress #winboat #linux #windows

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 12/10/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.7 ✨ Features: - Now you can decide whether or not you wanna share your home folder during installation, a warning has been added to make sure the user understands the risks Secondly, thanks on all of you for 10k GitHub stars!

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 12/10/2025

Notice to Supporters / Future Supporters If you were a recurring donator, and still would like to support WinBoat, you should update your donation to the new Ko-Fi managed by Levev: ko-fi.com/winboat

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 06/10/2025

We invite you to join our Discord server, which has recently reached a thousand members! discord.gg/MEwmpWm4tN This is our main line of communication and provides access to stuff such as alpha tests, and more!

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 28/09/2025

🎊 5,000 stars celebration! We have officially hit 5,000 stars on GitHub, which in my eyes marks a huge milestone and proves that WinBoat shipped with the right idea for the right people.

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 25/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.5 ✨ Features - Added an option to toggle auto-start for the container in Configuration - WinBoat will now warn you if you're about to allocate most of your free disk space if there's <5GB of free space left after allocation (thread)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 24/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.4 ✨ Features: - Added noVNC as a preset app if you want to access WinBoat from the browser 🚧 Fixes: - Fixes to NixOS flake for Docker group detection - Fixed a bug where WinBoat wouldn't successfully load the first time you launch it because of a filesystem error

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.3 ✨ Features: - Support for NixOS flakes

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.2 🚧 Fixes: - Fixed an issue where WinBoat >0.8.0 wouldn't launch due to the USB library being compiled against a newer GLIBC version than available in some distros, now the app is compiled from Ubuntu 22.04 (1/3)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 18/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.8.1 🚧 Fixes: - Added a fallback for cases where the "usb.ids" file is not found on the host system, now we provide a backup file which is updated to the latest version on build/release

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 18/09/2025

🎉 Major Release v0.8.0 ✨ Features: - Fully implemented Dynamic USB passthrough as an experimental feature - You can now specify a custom FreeRDP port in Configuration - Added an option to toggle Experimental Features in Configuration (thread)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 15/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.12 ✨ Features: - Added a password confirmation field (thanks @sweatkroket) - Added username and password validation, because there have been cases in the past where weird combinations broke the container (such as whitespace and/or, special characters)

Window displaying the User Configuration window

New differences in red:
Must be 2 characters long next to username
Passwords must have alphanumeric characters and at least four characters long
A Confirm Password box has also been added

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 14/09/2025

Now you can donate to support WinBoat! Since many of you have asked me to set up some channels where you could donate, starting today you'll be able to do so. Please don't feel obliged to donate, WinBoat is completely free and MIT licensed, only do so if you feel like the project deserves it. 1/3

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 13/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.11 🚧 Fixes: - WinBoat now uses the id -Gn command to get the user groups instead of groups which seems to be missing on some distributions. If this command is not available either, we're not entirely sure what to recommend.

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 12/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.10 ✨ Features: - Apps in your personal start menu should now also be detected (Tested with VS Code installed only for the user, feedback is welcome) - When you try to run multiple instances of WinBoat at once, now you will get an error message and the second instance will quit (1/2)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 10/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.9 🚧 Fixes: - This release fixes an issue for an edge case where for example the Flatpak variant of FreeRDP was installed, but the xfreerdp binary with higher priority was also present, however the version was <3.x.x and the specs check rejected it

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 09/09/2025

50 followers, neat! Anyway, here's Banán, the official Winboat Cat

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 09/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.8 ✨ Features: - This release adds a warning during installation for when you're trying allocate more RAM to the WinBoat container than available and explain that you could do this since you have that much available from the hardware side but the container will most likely crash

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 08/09/2025

Hey, we are on @thisweekinlinux.bsky.social! Thanks for mentioning our app and we're looking forward to your viewers trying it and giving feedback to us! 💫 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK81...

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Linux Mint 22.2, Linux from Scratch, WinBoat: Windows Apps on Linux & more Linux news

YouTube video by Michael Tunnell

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 08/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.7 ✨ Features: - Refresh button (thx, wfzyx) and - the panel with the buttons & search bar is now turned off and semi-transparent if the container/Guest Server is offline 🚧 Fixes: - In rare cases the apps weren't updated properly when you uninstalled something: fixed

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 06/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.5 ✨ Features: - Added a pre-requisite check to ensure the version of FreeRDP is 3.x.x and refactored existing FreeRDP check - Added a pre-requisite check to ensure Docker is running 🖌️ Style: - Improved the styling of the version select screen to not have any overflow

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 05/09/2025

🎉 Release v0.7.3 🚧 Fixes: - This release fixes the reset button hanging (Thanks to @AdianKozlika) ✨ Features: - This release introduces .deb, .rpm, and .tar.gz builds (Thanks to @ZorinFoss)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 04/09/2025

cool stuff has happened in the last week Changelogs v.0.6.9 to v.0.7.2 (yay, a thread...) v.0.6.9 - Added a toggle which lets you pick between having your Linux home folder shared with Windows or not (1/4)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 02/09/2025

In the next version of WinBoat... 👀

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 01/09/2025

to recieve changelogs faster, check out our discord! we're almost there, just one moreee discord.gg/2mEJFBhKvZ

A member count; 74 green a.k.a. online; 199 grey, a.k.a. total member count

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 31/08/2025

🎉 Release v0.6.8 - addresses Powershell CPU usage spikes and process spam caused by RDP monitoring by adding a toggle to disable it + default to false - manual Guest Server update instructions - xfreerdp3 binary is now prioritized over xfreerdp: should fix some issues for inability to launch apps

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 30/08/2025

sadly, we do not in fact, sell foldable rigid inflatable boats made of fiberglass combined with inflatable tubes, neither do we serve marine dealerships maybe if the creator gets bored someday

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 30/08/2025

Release v0.6.4 BREAKING CHANGE: bsky.app/profile/winb... Fixes: This release fixes an issue where fresh installs of WinBoat wouldn't correctly copy over the guest server files, resulting in tons of things not working, such as apps not loading, update not working, etc.

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 30/08/2025

🎉 Release v0.6.3 [🛑 BREAKING CHANGE] You must update the guest server manually for this release to start working (ideally before you download the new AppImage): (1/3)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 24/08/2025

🎉 Minor Annoucement (v0.5.17) - We now have correctly working CI for releases, currently you can download AppImage and Unpacked builds, check it out over at github.com/TibixDev/win... - We're working on finalizing the website, most things are done, you can check it out over at winboat.app

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Releases · TibixDev/winboat

Windows for penguins. Contribute to TibixDev/winboat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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