xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agoAsus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSwww.notebookcheck.netexternal-linkmessage-square229linkfedilinkarrow-up1477arrow-down120
arrow-up1457arrow-down1external-linkAsus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OSwww.notebookcheck.netxavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 days agomessage-square229linkfedilink
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·20 days agoI look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.
minus-squarexavier666@lemmy.umucat.dayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down1·20 days agoYou 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”
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·20 days agoNetwork booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agonot, it’s booting from small storage, then it uses remote desktop
minus-squarekurmudgeon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·20 days agoNot the Dell one, not worth your time or money - only has Intel N-series processor. But the ASUS one may have better internals.
minus-squareactionjbone@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 days agoIt’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are. I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·20 days agoI hope that future happens, but I’m scared.
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”
Network booting from the WAN sounds like a hellscape
not, it’s booting from small storage, then it uses remote desktop
…good
Not the Dell one, not worth your time or money - only has Intel N-series processor. But the ASUS one may have better internals.
It’s also not worth my time or money to track down old, beat-up Chromebooks and put Linux on them, and yet here we are.
I’m weird, so the things I find fun are weird.
I hope that future happens, but I’m scared.