@Pete-S said in Raspberry Pi 4 as thin/fat client:

@Emad-R said in Raspberry Pi 4 as thin/fat client:

@Pete-S

Hey if your bussiness can use LibreOffice, you dont need MS Windows. Or google Docs, basically if you can do your job via terminal and web browser you have alot of options and freedom

Thanks Emad but I'm not the one looking for VDI solutions. I just wanted to share my test with the raspberry pi 4 is it might be interesting to use as a thin client.

Something extra nice about an RP4 as a thin client is that it has the power to run things locally too. I know lots of people who use them as a fat clients. Being that cheap and dual purpose is great.

@jkaspersen said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

@jkaspersen said in Is the Physical Thin Client Era Dead?:

forget the ARM... not developed..

Oh, that's too bad.

yes... but it is still the same issue ... where is the volume... as with hardware and thin clients , and with software.. where is the volume... the volume is on X64 hardware.. and not on ARM... i know citrix did some work there... but "others" dont... so the volume is not there.. ps: to my knowledge there we too many firmware updates to the "Texas Instruments" used by Fujitsu.... so we never did a ARM terminal (luckey us)

RP is the best selling single hardware of all time. It's a bit of volume. In fact, essentially every SMB I know that does thin clients of any sort use it. The performance is so good, at a cost so low, hard to imagine using anything else. It seems to have the volume these days.

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