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At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)
Please don’t buy this.
Someone will install Linux on them and use them as a cheap barebones computer. I’m sure with a bit of jiggery-pokery they can be repurposed to something useful.
I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.
You can be sure that planned obsolescence can be done much easier on these kind of hardware. One tweak from the backend and “oops, looks like Microslop 365 OS can’t run your thin client”
…good
Network booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape
Google calls it a Chromebox.
Back in 2008-2009 I shared this crazy idea with my peers that Microsoft was moving towards an “always connected” OS that would probably be hosted on their servers, because you can make more money charging someone for access to their data than charging them once for their OS.
they laughed it off and told me that nobody would fall for that.
…who’s laughing now assholes?
Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.
yeah Im so glad I finally went to linux for my personal computing. Really should have done it about a decade earlier.
Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.
Businesses will adore this. I can guarantee a lot of us will be forced to use these at work, like Teams and CoPilot, as a further mega deal with Microsoft.
…But honestly, I think “home” buyers who don’t really care about PC stuff, aka most people, would pick tablets over this.
If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.
I see this going nowhere
For a few hundred bucks I have a mini PC with which I can do anything I want
This thing, even at half price, would only allow office365, with monthly payments.
Who the fuck would want that and not just spend a few bucks more and have an actual computer?
Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters… Guess they found an use for that after all.
I’m so sick of Microsoft I actually installed Fedora KDE Plasma.
Genuinely, it’s nicer than windows lol
The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying, but overall it works really well, has more features and looks slick.
Ain’t ever going back.
