• Fizz@lemmy.nz
    11·
    15 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.

    • Amon@lemmy.world
      2·
      39 minutes ago

      Tbf it’s just a kiosk so I doubt there’s anything special other than a kiosk software and Ubuntu core image

  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
    87·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      40·
      1 day ago

      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.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

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

    • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.ee
      8·
      23 hours ago

      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.

    • rem26_art@fedia.io
      311·
      1 day ago

      “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!”

          • DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
            2·
            51 minutes ago

            It can vary, but there are multiple licenses at the enterprise level with varying agreements and costs. Not just the OS for your server, but software, services, end user devices, and other random things that most folks never think about because they don’t have to.

            In some cases FOSS can take a big chunk out of those costs or even eliminate them entirely if you have good staff that knows their stuff and your business doesn’t need or can make it’s own niche software/systems. If you build it in-house, you have to support and maintain it but it’s still often cheaper than many paid solutions.

      • NebLem@lemmy.world
        15·
        22 hours ago

        Commercial Windows licenses aren’t typically covered by the equipment installers (or if they are, the cost is passed on to you instead of subsidizing it), have expiration dates, and you’ll want security updates.

        I think the comment had the implication that the system would be running on Windows if not Ubuntu.

        • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
          14·
          16 hours ago

          The comment implied Microsoft somehow is preventing a business owner from running their business.

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
    13·
    24 hours ago

    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?

    • 0x0@programming.dev
      1·
      1 hour ago

      That’s what companies care for, that cannot afford a full IT employee or even department.

      I doubt those companies can afford paid support from the likes of Cannonical and Red Hat - their licenses are solely for other at-scale companies to write off expenses and shift blame if something hits the fan.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      9·
      24 hours ago

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

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      4·
      23 hours ago

      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.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        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.