casualsnek/cassowary
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Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2022-02-04 · latest 2025-10-16
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…it's $0 for students). In the future I will try running windows CAD under linux using kvm and this: https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary
comment by beeflet · 2025-10-16 · in Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state -
I believe Cassowary ( https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary ) is an older tool that does pretty much this. My experience with it is that FreeRDP in rootless mode isn't very good for Windows applications that do anything special with…
comment by jeroenhd · 2025-10-08 · in WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration -
Take a look at https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary . If your license key doesn't work/you don't have one, they really aren't that expensive. Might also work without any activation at all.
comment by oynqr · 2022-12-04 · in MSN replaced journalists with AI publishing fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot -
…My next system is going to be a lightweight Linux host with a pile of VMs and something like https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary , with juicy enough hardware to make it feel like I'm only running one OS.
comment by thaumaturgy · 2022-04-01 · in Farewell, Elementary -
…the failed installation. As for the video conferencing, you might be interested in Cassowary ( https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary ), a tool to run Windows executables in a Windows VM through RDP, with suspend/resume of the VM on…
comment by jeroenhd · 2022-03-21 · in Windows needs a change in priorities -
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Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native appsstory by shaicoleman · 2022-02-04 · 140 comments