Citrix Workspace
Shares rank 11 of 22 game streaming software by recommenders
Lets people run Windows apps and sessions from a remote server when a browser can't, though critics call it slow, flickery and painful to manage.
Lets people run Windows apps and sessions from a remote server when a browser can't, though critics call it slow, flickery and painful to manage.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 37%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow, flickery and not seamless
“but thats still not as seamless”
Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System” “Our Citrix is slow, so I don't do calls there.”
Comment from 15 Nov 2025 in “Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux” “flickering issues when using Citrix”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating” Layered sessions are painful
“Incredibly painful, also considering that each layer had a different keymap”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “JumpServer: Open-Source Privileged Access Management” “they're all behind two or three layers of Citrix”
Comment from 9 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder” Painful to administer
“let's please actually think about all the vmware citrix enterprise trash you tolerated”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code Remote Control” “As a former Citrix admin, I felt that burn in my bones.”
Comment from 5 Jun 2026 in “When AI Builds Itself”
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| Citrix WorkspaceThis page | 7 | 12 | 37% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“specific ones can be ran via Citrix for a few people who need it”
“Citrix is still everywhere you need a client that can do things a web browser can’t”
“then use Citrix to deploy software to a Windows box”
“Incredibly painful, also considering that each layer had a different keymap”
“Sunrays were just terminals for teachers so they could run apps on windows servers via Citrix.”
“start teams, outlook and putty in a citrix session”
“Nutanix and Citrix is just as expensive, and another platform capture”
“As a former Citrix admin, I felt that burn in my bones.”
“LibreOffice, Citrix, FoxIT Reader”
“and in other cases installing Citrix?”
“flickering issues when using Citrix”
“It's also much easier to deploy than citrix”
“let's please actually think about all the vmware citrix enterprise trash you tolerated”
“but thats still not as seamless”
“They had some hyper janky Windows XP Citrix client that ran 3270 terminals that kind of half-worked”
“search for “shitrix”, there’s thousands more CVEs out there to use as example”
“they're all behind two or three layers of Citrix”
“we have to use Citrix even though we are within the company network”
“Our Citrix is slow, so I don't do calls there.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.