▲ 455 ▼ Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS (www.notebookcheck.net) submitted 8 months ago by xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to c/technology@lemmy.world 229 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day [S] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children) I might have skipped that cycle. Local always. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago* Not if you’re an enterprise. I worked at a company where 80% of our workers (so over 2000) were on thin clients, even remotely. We could manage and upgrade the entire fleet easily from a single point. Ran the servers in house but were able to switch a portion to the cloud if we needed. We were doing that 20+ years ago. permalink fedilink source parent [–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) If you skipped the cycle of VDI, consider yourself lucky lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day [S] 6 points 8 months ago They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it's completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago* Not if you’re an enterprise. I worked at a company where 80% of our workers (so over 2000) were on thin clients, even remotely. We could manage and upgrade the entire fleet easily from a single point. Ran the servers in house but were able to switch a portion to the cloud if we needed. We were doing that 20+ years ago. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 child) If you skipped the cycle of VDI, consider yourself lucky lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day [S] 6 points 8 months ago They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it's completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day [S] 6 points 8 months ago They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it's completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em. permalink fedilink source parent