Does anyone here use only a smartphone + peripherals (monitor, keyboard, mouse) to access a VDI? 🤔📱💻

I think that fad died a couple of years ago

Citrix Nirvana Phone vibes, at this hour?

I can't imagine a world where losing, forgetting or breaking your phone would render you unable to work. It's bad enough that we have MFA stored all over the damned things

Even if it worked as well as imagined for Citrix, as a phone you'd never want to use it compared to other setups.

Saw Samsung Dex in action with Citrix, "ok experience" I'd say.

It's a great option....in a pinch. But no.

i've done it with an iphone / ipad if i am really desperate for an emergency when away from the laptop

I’m looking for information from people who have used a phone as their primary tool instead of a laptop/thin client for accessing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). What challenges did you face? What’s missing, what doesn’t work well, etc.?

The main challenge you will face is that it's simply not popular and therefore not mature. Citrix concentrate development and fix effort onto connecting devices that they see a lot of, for obvious reasons. Phones just aren't it. Never have been, and probably never will be. IMHO, YMMV, etc.

Any similar solution for AVD ?

Suppose you could install the RD Client on a phone easy enough and maybe hook up some peripherals, never tried

I use it daily. DeX connecting to AVD. All I need works

Challenge for us is the missing support of Zoom VDI and Jabber JVDI. So there is no optimziation (Omnissa Horizon).