Running Citrix Workspace on Fedora with Rootless Podman

There is a class of software I need for work but do not particularly want to adopt. Citrix Workspace belongs firmly in that class. The Linux client itself works. The less appealing part is everything around it: a large proprietary package, supporting libraries, certificate-store modifications, optional USB components, configuration below my home directory, and another application whose lifecycle becomes entangled with the workstation. I need it to open an .ica file. I do not need it to become part of Fedora. So I put the whole thing in an Ubuntu 24.04 image and launch each session as a disposable rootless Podman container. Fedora 44 keeps only Podman, a short wrapper script, and a desktop entry. The Citrix binaries and their Debian dependencies stay in container storage, where deleting them later has a satisfying, unambiguous meaning. The result has been pleasantly boring. Audio works through the host’s PipeWire PulseAudio socket, hardware rendering uses /dev/dri, webcams are…