Post #2844847

2026-02-22 02:51 UTC

It's literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago. Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux. Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux. Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems... Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I'm kind of annoyed when people don't realize this. I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It's sloppy and unnecessary.

Replies (8)

@mosspiglet@discuss.online 2026-02-22 05:00

Right, the thing that caught my eye was running a full desktop OS for a sign board.

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@AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-22 08:00

The display in the underground trains of Munich and Nuremberg still uses windows. It's such a pet peeve of mine, why would they pay for a license for such a simple use case?

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@kautau@lemmy.world 2026-02-22 08:12

_engineers are just letting_ That’s a bold claim cotton, I’m sure there are no project managers, middle managers, or executives involved

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@tomiant@piefed.social 2026-02-22 03:02

The transit information around here is all running some janky ass kernel from 20 years ago, and sure, it works, until it don't. I appreciate the effort and all, but damn I wish they'd take shit more seriously.

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@hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2026-02-22 23:26

for some reason, all these devices i see around these days seem to run android (one of 5/6/7/8 based on the exposed ui) or win10.. haven't seen any linux desktop-ish thing here

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@jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-02-22 22:06

ATMs? Why, Windoge, of course! What could possibly go wrong!

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@UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2026-02-22 06:45

Yep. Even a lot of the cheap little game consoles and shit you get from China run some variety of Linux.

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@Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-02-22 15:39

It is not all Linux, some are BSD based, like a lot of routerOSs

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