Citrix sucks? Please don't tell that to my hundreds of happy users that connect to it from all over the world! They would be devastated! lol!
So tell me, how long were you a barker for P.T. Barnum before you started pushing Citrix?
We run desktops, laptops and off site Citrix machines. Never, ever, once have we ever had a user that said, please oh please take away my desktop/laptop and let me work with a Citrix machine. :lmao:
Citrix Sucks. But I a repeat myself.
For the last two years we have been phasing out our Citrix machines and going to more expensive desktop's/laptop's. The funniest comment I have heard so far was that two years to phase out the Citrix machines was still faster than working on the Citrix machines. :lmao:
We use Citrix only as a remote office tool, sort of a VPN if you will.... although some users in remote offices use it as a desktop since the file server and the citrix cluster are in the same rack.... since all they get is video feed, it is much faster than pulling the files to their desktops.
Sounds like you were running Citrix like thin clients? Dumb terminals on the user end? Don't think I would care for that.. we run full desktops / laptop for every user.
I have a two VM Citrix cluster, on a decent VM cluster. Average around 30 to 40 sessions per Citrix VM at any given time... never a problem! They complain about slowness when I shut down connections on one Citrix for upgrades... but normally never a complaint. Of course we have 100megabit MPLS to two of the field offices, and quad t1's to the other two... so bandwidth isn't usually an issue.
I'm the Citrix admin and the VMware admin... so I take good care of them!