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Run Windows apps on #Linux with seamless integration โœจ ๐ŸŒ winboat.app ๐Ÿฑ github.com/TibixDev/winboat ๐Ÿ’ฌ discord.gg/MEwmpWm4tN

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

22.12.2025 18:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Release v0.9.0 ยท TibixDev/winboat ๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.9.0 โœจ Features: ๐Ÿณ Podman is now supported, you can pick it during installation, however USB passthrough on Podman is not supported yet UWP app support has been added, now you can see ...

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.9.0

There are loads of new features! See the changelog below: github.com/TibixDev/win...

#linux #winboat

24.11.2025 21:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.10.2025 16:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ 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

22.10.2025 16:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 43 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

22.10.2025 16:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

21.10.2025 08:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 56 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Early OpenGL acceleration progress
#winboat #linux #windows

19.10.2025 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.7

โœจ 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!

12.10.2025 09:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

12.10.2025 09:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.6 โœจ Features: You can now specify exactly where you'd like to install WinBoat, the requirement for space in /var is gone entirely (Thank you to the alpha testers for this feature) WinBoat will now remem...

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v.0.8.6

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08.10.2025 05:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

06.10.2025 05:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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!

28.09.2025 15:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽŠ 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.

28.09.2025 15:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

(3/3)

25.09.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- 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)

25.09.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.5

โœจ 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)

25.09.2025 13:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.4

โœจ Features:
- Added noVNC as a preset app if you want to access WinBoat from the browser

๐Ÿšง 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

24.09.2025 05:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.3

โœจ Features:
- Support for NixOS flakes

22.09.2025 13:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

3/3

22.09.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- Fixed an issue where the app list could not be obtained on Japanese Windows 11 (thanks @fukumen)

๐Ÿงฉ 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)

22.09.2025 12:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.2

๐Ÿšง 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)

22.09.2025 12:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

someday :)

18.09.2025 20:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.8.1

๐Ÿšง 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

18.09.2025 18:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

(3/3)

18.09.2025 05:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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feat: Improve Guest Server updater ยท TibixDev/winboat@759073c This commit improves the GS updater in many ways: - There&#39;s now a Defender exclusion added for both the GS folder and the temp folder containing the update - Instead of running the updater scri...

- 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)

18.09.2025 05:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‰ Major Release v0.8.0

โœจ 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)

18.09.2025 05:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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

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

๐ŸŽ‰ Release v0.7.12

โœจ 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)

15.09.2025 11:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Support Teodor Alexandru โค๏ธ Support Teodor Alexandru On Ko-fi.

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

14.09.2025 09:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.09.2025 09:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

14.09.2025 09:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0