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Honestly, im more surprised by the fact that these kiosks run windows, than by the fact that it isnt activated
Honestly, im more surprised by the fact that these kiosks run windows, than by the fact that it isnt activated
Ok, honestly, the GUIs most of these systems are used for would even FLTK be overkill.
And cashier systems still manage to make it laggy and with the occasional freeze until restart.
Who are they going to pay to maintain FLTK? There are still companies that are adverse to using Linux because they don’t know what is going to happen when Linus dies. That might sound strange to us, but companies need legal protections that they can enforce through contracts and support contracts make that happen.
The laggy bit can be explained this way: all of these decisions are made because in theory this all sounds “right” (to the company) but then they get their prototype out with a medium level hardware solution and they look for places to squeeze. Oh, you mean I can take this half price min spec machine and it works 98% of the time? Sold.
Im not trying to say these are good practices, I am trying to explain the decisions that are made.
And their XP systems are still maintained?
I guarantee that some of them are or airgapped/private network support was provided in securing them.
The windows compatibility subsystem also supports applications that would otherwise have not supported an upgrade.