I recently got a couple of POS pc’s (Point of sale) you know the ones that are all in one with a base to sit on a counter. The thing is they’re very old non branded devices, even the label says 2GB DDR2 while it’s actually 4GB DDR3.

Anyway, first thing I did was plug in my Ventoy and boot Debian 12 live, and guess what? Everything just works! Even the touchscreen works.

What distro do you recommend? Will be using them in a small shop with Odoo (browser based ERP)

Sorry if my writing is messed up, English is my second language.

EDIT: thank all for your input really appreciate it. I think I’m going to go with the majority of recommendations and use Debian 12 with xfce maybe. At least until I’m comfortable using immutable OS’s.

  • Rand0mA@lemmy.world
    17·
    7 months ago

    I read that as “Distro for Piece of Shit”. I was going to say, if you dont like them, install Gentoo.

    Personally i tend to use Debian or Fedora. Fedora have also got a few distros that are immutable which if its a pos basically means it shouldnt ever break or get corrupted.

    That being said… If it works, dont ‘fix’ it. Debian is a decent OS.

    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      7 months ago

      I read that as “Distro for Piece of Shit”. I was going to say, if you dont like them, install Gentoo.

      Or even better: Linux From Scratch, or busybox buildroot

    • errorlab@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Tbh when I was thinking of the title that’s what came to mind, sorry for being clickbaity haha. Immutable OS’s have been on my radar for a while I just need to be a bit confident in using them before going live.