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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/12/2025

Not if said games utilises kernel-level anticheat, no. It is still a VM.

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/10/2025

Thanks @FezzedOne and Boss.sfc for the temporary AutoDesk account!

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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 · 22/10/2025

Thanks @FezzedOne and @Boss.sfc for the temporary AutoDesk account!

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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

Thanks to each and every single one of you who participated, supported WinBoat, helped alpha test, gave feedback, submitted PR-s or helped develop! Let's keep making WinBoat great, together!

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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

- Added a helpful tooltip when the Guest Server is offline which redirects you to troubleshooting steps (3/3)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 25/09/2025

- Bumped dockur/windows version to 5.03 and removed CPU arguments since now they're included by default for AMD (thanks @kroese)- Added better instructions for when the installation fails telling the user to also check their Docker logs (2/3)

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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

- Some changes in README to make it look neater (thanks @delphicmelody for the SVG logo) 3/3

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 22/09/2025

- Fixed an issue where the app list could not be obtained on Japanese Windows 11 (thanks @fukumen) 🧩 Misc - The Guest Server now has CORS, this will be useful later down the line when we switch from node-fetch to something else - Swapped the logger from Winston to Consola (2/3)

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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

- Fixed a small type in "Windows 10 LTSC 2021" - Fixed a z-index issue with the RDP Scale (3/3)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 18/09/2025

- Massively improved the Guest Server updater (check kutt.it/uWP4fv and kutt.it/KbuV49 for more details) but you ideally shouldn't have to manually update again starting from the next release (2/3)

kutt.it

feat: Improve Guest Server updater · TibixDev/winboat@759073c

This commit improves the GS updater in many ways: - There's now a Defender exclusion added for both the GS folder and the temp folder containing the update - Instead of running the updater scri...

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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

Ko-fi (run by a friend): ko-fi.com/vloss3/?hide... XMR: 4AkmHDdHDmJgsz75Yj9gRUJKcroWLg7x6Rf3bBWd4G5ZebiFtPebynKCsJRrVyzh8TZdEM6VqiKF4do5tnQzLAojDzDcs8L For XMR you'll have to ping Tibix on Discord with some info and I'll grant you the role manually. 3/3

ko-fi.com

Support Teodor Alexandru ❤️

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 14/09/2025

Donating will grant you a shiny Discord role (if the integration works), my eternal gratitude, and priority in requests and support. Additional perks may or may not be added later. 2/3

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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

🚧 Fixes: - Fixed an issue where apps had certain special characters (`,."'`) in their names causing the FreeRDP command to fail due to syntax errors (2/2)

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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 · 11/09/2025

🧩 Misc - Docker Image version pinning + Renovate Config by KiLoBO in github.com/TibixDev/win...

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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...

youtube.com

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

v.0.7.0 thru 0.7.2 - Custom apps, accessible in the Apps menu - Custom ISO now possible when installing WinBoat - fixed a bug which was introduced after a `scripts` folder was added to the Guest Server, where the folder wasn't being copied over correctly to OEM resulting in install bugs (4/4)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 04/09/2025

v.0.6.13 This release should fix several issues with installing, specifically by including -cpu host,arch_capabilities=off in the default compose flags and disabling the German and Hungarian languages, which prevents issues with installation for some folks (3/4)

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WinBoat @winboat.app · 04/09/2025

v.0.6.11 Fixed a bug where the /apps endpoint was not working on CJK systems due to the apps.ps1 script containing special characters and while being UTF-8 encoded, for now I got rid of the special characters (2/4)

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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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