I get that when people use windows because they need it for their

windows has a wide base of compatibility on a wide variety of hardware. you can easily buy a computer and reflash it to run whatever.

most airport monitors used windows because a lot of the relevant commercial off the shelf software used it
http://www.fids.com/flight-information-display-system/
>The FIDS screens are usually professional, intelligent monitors in portrait or landscape orientation with a build-in or attached appliance. To maximize possibilities airports often use a Microsoft Windows based PC for this. To reduce costs some airports nowadays choose for Android devices with an HTML5 solution as an alternative.

train stations use similar system and that's probably why.

i know that the airport monitors in PHL Terminal F actually run on Macs (saw a kernel panic on them once, "Please restart your Mac", etc.)...

>>60385843
hahahahah wincucks still getting BTFO

Because people need to play solitaire on their train timetables

>>60385843
because germans are amerifat puppets

I miss the old style timetables, now I get to see ads (or now ransomware) on a shitty burnt in screen instead of an aesthetic flipping

>>60385843
hardware and software compatibility

Businesses never learn, if you keep warning them and suggest anything besides windows you will probably get fired.

>>60385843
I don't really think it has anything to do with OS - even if they used Linux they would still get infected with something due to shitty security practices.

>>60385989
>Elon Musk was kicked out from Paypal for wanting to use Windows server
still funny

>>60386026
They could use something more embedded, like a BSD for example. So the attack surface would be even smaller.

>>60385843
>Install newest Windows
>Receive updates for the next 10 years
>...
>Install some custom linux on embedded device
>Will never see a single security update

>>60385989

It's funny because my boss recently proposed to "just drop" this Active Directory stuff because "lol it's cheaper" and we could "probably handle the policies some way else"

>>60386066
You can get security updates for embedded software too. But I doubt they update those things at all.

>>60386066
Now this is true.

Compatibility for the most part. And bosses not wanting to part with additional funding for something they'd see as a risk. They'd rather keep the status quo than have to spend additional money on changing operating systems and training.

>>60386066
>Receive updates for the next 10 years
That would be nice.

>>60386134
It is nice

>>60386066
>Install a standard Debian stable on a standard embedded x86 PC (probably with an Intel CPU and iGPU)
>everything works
>install a light display manager and simply use a full-screen firefox or some shit
>setup a custom internal Debian mirror so every machine can be kept offline
>use a configuration management software to control update deployments
There you go. Literally $0 spent on software and you get 5 years of security update.
Repeat when the next Debian gets released.

>>60386214
>install linux on x86 computer
>no drivers
>kernel panic
>nothing works
>revert back to windows

>>60385843
AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HEARTACHE

>>60386085
You could, with OpenLDAP

>install open source operating system
>because it's open source it's 1000x easier to find exploits and vulnerabilities

sure because there are so many distros its hard to get a wide scale infection going but if lincucks are delusional enough to think their OS is secure they need medication

>>60386274

I could also replace it with slapd.
Doesn't change the fact that you really shouldn't replace an established AD environment with a couple 10k users over night "because cheaper".

>>60385843
yep, they deserve it desu. everyone knows you only use with does for what you're prepared to lose. there's no actual way these people thought their hospitals, train stations, etc were secure with Windows, absolutely no way; they have not cared when they chose a compromised OS to run everything and said it was worth the risk.

>>60386239
>install windows on not x86 computer
>oh wait you can't

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>>60387179

>>60387197
>1.59Ghz Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM
>for a still-image airport screen

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>>60385843
> be me
>be sign installer
>all the sign needs to run is this program in full screen and internet for telemety back home
>install windows because I know how and it just werks
>not paid to harden the system just make sure it works
>it works
>get cryptolocked later in its life


This is why senpai

>>60387197
>Windows is not activated.

>>60385843
http://iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com/

>>60387248
>>install windows because I know how and it just werks
This is why here basic Linux literacy is taught in elementary school now.

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>>60386065
>>60386088
>>60386214
>>60386274
>>60386962
You are all a bunch of unemployable morons. This is how big guys do it:
>buy 100 identical dell workstations at bulk prices
>install 30 as cash registers, 20 in offices, 10 for other employess and 3 as screen drivers
>throw rest into storage
>hire a pajeet to take care of it
>5 years later three video cards and one disk dies
>pajeet just replaces it with storage parts
>10 years later big screen gets infected
>hire a security contractor to fix it

>>60386239
>implying windows has drivers
Windows has 0 ootb driver support. If you want drivers you either have to install them via CD/DVD or internet, which is retarded for anything other than desktop computers. Meanwhile Linux has the best ootb driver support across all architectures. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>60387408
in my business we had a budget for a 100 dell workstations and 5 spares.
Dell business warranty is great though. They dispatch someone to replace broken part within 24h with pretty much no questions asked. That's a total opposite of their normal customer support through.

>>60385843
to give it the benefit of the doubt, it could be a single computer handling it all somewhere and it just outputs to the public monitor

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>>60385931

Are they very expensive compared to monitors or just monitors are seen as more modern? In terms of readability they seem to beat screens, at least in terms of sheer size

>>60385843
>people use windows because they wana cry

>>60387248
Filename should be airgapped machines

>>60387690
no need for airgaps in a server rack. If fact, gaps in this case will make air circulation worse.

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>>60385843
>Adobe Photoshop for example only runs on this pile of shit

u wot m8

>>60387827
>mac

>>60387827
OP got rekt

>>60387918
So what?

>>60387937
>buying apple products

>>60387479
Same with HPE, Shit's smooth
Consumer support is still shit tho

>>60387966
They are overpriced but they are lovely when you use them.

>>60386214
>Literally $0 spent on software
and thousands of $os spent on work hours setting up this bullshit

>>60386303
It's 1000x as secure as windows, because security through obscurity doesn't work.

>>60388088
>security through obscurity

dumb cunt, do you realize that there are 100000x more linux computers connected to the internet then windows?

ever heard of a thing called servers?

>>60387248
is that nyi?

>>60388154
Yea Windows Server

>>60388208
There is more linux servers than windows server and that's a fact.

>>60388208
>Windows Server

>>60388246
[citation needed]

>>60388351
"Faggot" - anon