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Notes from building DeskBoot. Mostly engineering, occasionally pricing or licensing. Not a content farm.

• Jul 19, 2026 · 4 min read · DeskBoot Team

  M-Pesa for cloud spend: the setup, the ceilings, the workflow

  How to pay for a cloud desktop in KES via M-Pesa on DeskBoot: the setup, the ceilings, the workflow, and the tradeoffs.

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• Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read · DeskBoot Team

  Regions and RDP latency: picking the right one

  Cloud desktops are interactive — every keystroke round-trips to the server. Region choice sets the floor on how responsive your session feels. Here's the practical guide.

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• Jul 7, 2026 · 4 min read · DeskBoot Team

  Cloud desktop vs VPS vs your laptop: which one, when

  You have a laptop already. You could rent a VPS. Why pay for a cloud desktop? A practical framework for when each one wins.

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• Jun 9, 2026 · 4 min read · DeskBoot Team

  Running Kali Linux in the cloud, the honest way

  Why "just spin up a Kali AMI on EC2" is more friction than anyone admits, and what we built instead.

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• Jun 9, 2026 · 5 min read · DeskBoot Team

  Windows 11 in the cloud isn't actually a Microsoft option (and what we do instead)

  A licensing explainer for anyone who clicked "Windows 11 Pro" in our OS catalog and noticed it boots into Server 2022.

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• Jun 9, 2026 · 4 min read · DeskBoot Team

  We charge by the second. Here's why.

  The math behind per-second cloud workspace pricing, and why the $30/month flat-fee model is wrong for almost everyone.

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