It's so frustrating seeing all this sandbox tooling pop up for linux but windows is soooooo far behind. I mean Windows Sandbox ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati... ) doesn't even have customizable networking white lists. You can turn networking on or off but that's about as fine grained as it gets. So all of us still having to write desktop windows stuff are left without a good method of easily putting our agents in a blast proof box.
I don't mean to turn this into a religious war, but honestly, I sometimes wonder what would be the net benefit for humanity if Windows slowly disappeared. And I'm saying this as someone who appreciates the good stuff done by Microsoft in the past (windows 9* UI, decades-long support for Win32 APIs etc.).
Why doesn't Microsoft just take their incredible, human-replacing, AGI level AI's, and just port all their code to a Linux kernel instead of the NT kernel?
Oh right, because that's not in the training set.
The NT kernel is actually pretty amazing. You can even run a pretty solid Windows version if you want to sail the high seas. LTSC and masgrave will get you most of the way there.
The NT kernel is by far the best part of Windows. It's everything on top of it that has turned to crap
Web browsers don't even work properly in Windows Sandbox. There is a bug that hasn't been patched in over a year whereby web browsers can't use the GPU to render a page so all it displays is a white page. Users have to create a configuration file that turns off vGPU and launch Windows Sandbox from that.
Feel you. That's why we're actively working on Windows and macOS sandbox support at Daytona - with proper isolation, agents tools, dynamic resizing etc; not just "networking on/off" level controls.
If you're building agents on Windows and want to give it a spin, reach out for early access.
Our stack is msvc / cmake / ninja / incredibuild ? Can you support such things?
We should be able to. The goal is that if it runs on Windows, it runs in the sandbox. That's the whole point.
fill this out - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoK-77-VpfsMubw8F4...
Put under use case HN thread and i'll ping you back
I guess get busy contacting Microsoft or get busy using Open Source software instead.
Can give you access to win sandboxes on Daytona, just fill this in here and lmk! https://www.daytona.io/docs/en/computer-use/