Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS
2026-02-28 04:24 UTC
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@MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2026-02-28 05:05
Goodbye local Windows, you mean. Except I said goodbye two years ago and never looked back or missed it. Windows does nothing I need, and does it poorly. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still petty enough to hope this effort is a miserable failure, but ultimately I don’t care all that much.
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@Repelle@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 05:13
Humans aren’t mature enough to have an internet. It was a mistake; can we take it back??? Maybe we’re mature enough to have standalone computers… maybe.
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@toiletobserver@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 05:17
Unless the pc is free, why the fuck would anyone use it?
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@heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf 2026-02-28 05:34
lol. Nope.
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@terrific@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-02-28 06:06
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.
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@actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-28 06:06
I look forward to thrifting one in a few years, then installing Linux on it.
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@pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-28 07:13
Ah yes, it’s around the time for thin clients of this cycle.
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@jordanlund@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 08:25
And when your Internet goes down, you can’t even work locally. Genius! I’m sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected. What could possibly go wrong?
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@IWW4@lemmy.zip 2026-02-28 11:17
It is a Thinnet client. They have been around for at least 26 years.
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@Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 11:33
What in the name is the flying spaghetti monster is Windows 365? An even less private version of windows that won’t work is you don’t have internet?
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@kepix@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 07:23
“not power themselfs” ?
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@Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2026-03-01 07:32
Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
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@MrPnut@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 02:14
At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)
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@SeaSgt@lemmy.zip 2026-03-01 22:41
Please don’t buy this.
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@maplesaga@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 17:34
Google calls it a Chromebox.
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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 16:55
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?
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@ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2026-02-28 18:35
Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-02-28 18:22
yeah Im so glad I finally went to linux for my personal computing. Really should have done it about a decade earlier.
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@anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 23:45
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.
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@brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 19:02
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.
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@DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 21:32
If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-02-28 22:05
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?
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@tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 22:34
Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters... Guess they found an use for that after all.
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@PangurBan@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 20:39
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.
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@QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 22:17
And so, the technofiefdom begins.
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@KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2026-02-28 22:28
The best we'll soon be able to own is workstations. Talk about data manipulation.
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@apple_train@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 00:07
These won't amount to much, windows 365 is expensive. Companies really only have a use case for these over dedicated hardware for specific use cases that make sense, of which there isn't a lot vs dedicated computers.
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 00:38
Going back to the dumb terminal days of the 60s & 70s
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@AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 00:04
> Unlike Dell, Asus did mention a few more details - the system will pack DDR5 memory, HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5G Ethernet. Exact details regarding the USB and HDMI port were not offered, however. Isn't the amount of memory kind of a tiny bit more important than which generation it is?
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@daikiki@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 01:41
It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.
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@lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 10:12
Obviously these are going to be used for corporate or organizational settings, as it what was then with the so-called Network Computer thin clients which Oracle tried promoting but flopped.
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@Cekan14@lemmy.org 2026-03-01 08:21
*Laughs in Debian*
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@Zink@programming.dev 2026-03-01 13:41
If these are just little low-powered PCs where you can pop in a USB drive and install a real OS, I could see some uses for them. Hopefully we aren't entering the wonderful world of phone-like locked down firmware with these things. But I already have old PCs that are great at, you know, running software on their actual hardware. So realistically I'll never consider one of these unless they do something awesome like subsidize the cost and sell them as normal little x86-64 PCs with some janky stripped down version of windows installed.
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@FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2026-03-01 09:58
That's *crazy*
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2026-03-01 13:44
You will own nothing and you will be happy!
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@MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 2026-03-02 00:40
For work, this would be great. For home, hell nah.
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@the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-02 19:29
Yawn. People complaining about this apparently don't work in IT and don't know that thin clients which connect to a variety of different VDI solutions are pretty common in lots of different businesses and government agencies.
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@Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 2026-02-28 20:24
So a thin client?
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@oh_@lemmy.world 2026-02-28 13:20
No, no and no.
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@SeaSgt@lemmy.zip 2026-02-28 12:53
They are all such cunts!