[jedieaston]

It's just annoyingly expensive for Windows boxes, with all of the licensing and stuff. Microsoft includes licenses for running VDI in Azure with Microsoft 365 now, but it still requires a full on-prem Active Directory setup (which you probably don't have if you are using Microsoft 365). And then on top of those licenses, you also have to get Citrix/VMWare licenses if you don't want to use Azure. It becomes more expensive than hiring a IT person to just manage all of the laptops you deploy everywhere (except in certain scenarios like healthcare).

I want to live in a world where we all have SunRays and I just plug in a card and show my session running in the cloud, but it's too darn expensive still (and everyone in enterprise is too scared to try and build one themselves since the big vendors have Microsoft's blessing when building their solutions). That one time I had a VDI at an internship, boy was it magical. Being able to walk into a conference room, type my password and show people something was extremely powerful.