No one else handles legacy apps, seamless USB redirection, or multi-forest domain trust like Citrix does. The trial is a rite of passage. It is designed to filter out the hobbyists and force the professionals to prove their worth.
The Citrix Virtual Apps trial is not a "kick the tires" demo. It is a surgical instrument. It is frustratingly difficult to obtain, deliberately complex to configure, and unforgiving on Day 15.
Citrix licenses are concurrent. Your trial likely gives you 10 or 25 users. But you need to simulate 100. Use a load generator (like Login VSI or even a simple PowerShell script) to launch 50 instances of Chrome on 5 VDAs.
Then, around day 15, you hit
However, if you survive the 30-day trial—if you configure the load balancing, tame the printer redirection, and optimize the Teams video feed—you will emerge with one undeniable truth: