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Found this out in the wilds of Nova Scotia. Looked like Debian (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Er. Am I the only one to comment that this is a refreshing change to all the displays in shops, airports, etc that show the many ways that Windows errors and BSODs?

Linux on the desktop? Hell no, it's on 80' billboards.

(It's not Arch btw)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Since the Raspberry Pi has been released it's pretty common.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Running Windows for digital signage always struck me as an absolute waste of computing power. Just shove some low power Linux SBC into it and forget about it for about a decade or so

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A lot of the time, the whole company that runs the signage uses Windows, and the signage just uses one of their standard PCs with their standard Windows image. They probably already have a bunch of spares. Makes it easier for IT if they don't have to support another configuration.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just said "You know when Linux has taken over the world? When you don't see blue screens on billboards."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I mean, we have systemd-bsod now...

Not that I've ever seen it of course.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Same here, was at the airport just last week and saw two screens running windows, absolute joke.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Gentoo?