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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Public Blue Screens Of Death

Public displays and digital infrastructure software failing to do their job because of blue screens, crashes or other problems

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Windows is a service...

No, you're an Operating System. If you were a service, I'd be going into task manager, killing your process, and setting the service startup mode to Disabled.

[–] Tb0n3 18 points 8 months ago

Yeah. That's what got me. No, Windows, you are not a service.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why would you be using Windows for displaying literally what looks like a static image, maybe a video? Seems like massive overkill.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

True, but if you're a small independent business it's pretty reasonable to believe they don't have any techies. Just grabbing a basic Windows PC that you already understand is probably a simple enough solution.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No excuse then, report it to Gregg himself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Gregg should really be the one updating the PCs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Multi monitor support might also be easier in Windows depending on the hardware used?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hard disagree. Most Linux releases have handled a second monitor automatically for years. Plug and play.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking like six monitors like I see at the local servo. Guessing they're using some kind of displaylink usb adapters? Does Linux play OK with them?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For static setups like PC's it is fine. For laptops however my experience is that every distro I tried fails horribly in providing a decent UX. Each and every time I plug in my monitor while my laptop is in sleep mode (so each time I worked at the office) I need to set up the proper resolution again when it wakes. I don't know if Linux cannot handle 5120x1440 properly, but both X11 and Wayland just reset to glorious 640x480.

[–] prettybunnys 17 points 8 months ago

They’re using windows to show a webpage.

Teensy tiny windows pcs are cheap and a low barrier of entry for “the tech guy”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Even Wendy’s runs Ubuntu for display signs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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