#shell#cassowary#docker#freerdp#gnome#hacktoberfest#integration#kde#libvirt#linux#linux_app#nautilus#nix_flake#podman#qemu#qemu_kvm#seamless#winapps#windows#wine#xfce
You can run Windows applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Cloud directly on your Linux desktop (KDE, GNOME, or XFCE) as if they were native apps using WinApps. It works by running Windows inside a virtual machine (using Docker, Podman, or libvirt) and then showing Windows apps seamlessly on Linux with FreeRDP. Your Linux home folder is accessible in Windows, and you can right-click files in Linux to open them with Windows apps. This lets you use all Windows programs without leaving Linux, improving productivity and convenience without needing dual boot or separate hardware.
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
🔈Most Common Smart Speaker Usage
People are doing plenty of things with voice commands on their #SmartSpeakers, but shopping isn’t really one of them. Only about a quarter to a third of U.S. smart speaker owners have ever purchased something using voice. Very few do so on a regular basis. An Information article this summer said just 2 percent of #Alexa owners had made a purchase via Alexa in 2018.
🚀@PerspectiveIX via Recode.
❓Do you own a Smart Speaker, like Apple HomePod, Google Home, Amazon Echo, etc?
🗣The State of Chinese Voice Assistants
China is the second-largest consumer market in the world, hitting $4.3T in consumer expenditure in 2016 alone (for reference, the US ranked first with $12.5T, and Japan third with $2.7T).
The Chinese smart home market will reach nearly $23B in 2018, according to Juniper Research. #SmartSpeakers and #AI voice assistants are becoming an integral part of that.
Now that smart speakers are becoming commonplace, the early entrant, #Amazon, is losing its market share — and not just to its rival #Google, but to newer players emerging in China.
🚀@PerspectiveIX via CBInsights.
❓ Do you own a smart speaker?