• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    14 hours ago

    I wonder if Wendy’s donates back to the project. Ive seen so many companies use Foss software and not pay anything and it pisses me off every time.

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    I’ve been seeing it pop up more in embedded/PC based devices. Seems to be replacing Windows XP and the other embedded Windows versions. Guess Microsoft wants too much for those licenses.

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      I was really surprised seeing KDE on the kiosk at our local unemployment office which is notorious for bad IT. That was 7 or 8 years ago.

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      kwik trip’s self-serve ‘fresh blends’ smoothie machines use it. see one crashed every now and then here.

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      I used to run 8.1 embedded as my desktop and honestly if my exoerience with it was anything to go by windows embedded has been only requiring more resources while losing features that make having a separate embedded edition make sense.

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      “Please just put the fries in the bag. I don’t care about open source or that GNU is the operating system and Linux is the kernel or whatever you’re yappin about!”

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    Thanks for sharing, always nice to see!

    But nowadays I’d be surprised if one of these display devices ran Windows or some similar crap that is NOT Linux.

    Ubuntu/Canonical did, imho, the right thing to offer paid support for what is otherwise a free OS. That’s what companies care for, that cannot afford a full IT employee or even department. Of course Redhat et. al. also offer that but Ubuntu seems more suitable for smaller solutions?

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      i mean linux is linux if its only booting up to display video or a simple interaction panel

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      It’s probably irrelevant for the 1-executable no WAN use case, but the sheer price they are paying for even a dirt cheap board that can run the full gnome environment vs…like, a raspberry pi…blows the mind.

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        I’m running a full version of Ubuntu on my Orange Pi 5 Plus, which is roughly the same as a Raspberry Pi 5 and it runs fine, so that thing could easilly be hardware in same class of power as a Raspberry Pi 5 or entry level intel Mini-PC and run Ubuntu.

        That said, it would still be an SBC that costs about $120.

        In my experience, a $40 SBC can’t run more than Armbian and would be better off with a lightweight distro running a lighter window manager.