no “p-please activate windows” watermark in the bottom right indicating piracy
it’s so over
Download hack from https://debian.org/download
crackers will actually shame chinese people for doing literally anything
They’re in the process of moving away from Intel/AMD chips in all government machines now that their domestic alternatives (namely LoongArch) have gotten to a state where they’re good enough for most day to day tasks. I give it some time, but I wouldn’t doubt them requiring a similar move away from these chips in extremely crucial settings like this.
Making industrial computers on windows is baffling though, they use arcane serial protocols anyway, you create software from scratch on installations, so why not do linux
You’d be shocked how many factories are running on some ancient version of Windows XP in general. While it’s baffling to those of us that don’t use Windows for coding, the vast majority of software development still happens in Microsoft land.
I assume a lot of the machinery itself does run on some flavor of Linux (or maybe even some real-time operating system like VxWorks) that has been stripped down for embedded use, Windows just wouldn’t run on this kind of hardware. I imagine this desktop is (as you can kind of see in the photo) just a display that sits in an office and serves as an overview of the machines, display warnings, and all that kind of stuff. Though, since it seems to just be a website, I’m not sure why they also wouldn’t use Linux in this scenario either and set it up in a POS (point-of-sale) fashion where all it can do is display that website and nothing else. Maybe they also use them for general office work as well? Who knows.
big reason they use windows is because a lot of front line workers dont understand computers and windows is still the least annoying os to use at least for those people
like yeah 10 and 11 are mostly shit but it beats having to teach the vocational school grad (who doesnt know english) basic bash commands just to do shit he already knows how to do in windows
there is also the fact that junior chinese programmers are more familiar with windows in general and that plays a part, but its mostly for troubleshooting convenience
This hasn’t been an accurate representation of desktop linux for a while now.
Outside of installing obscure libs (which you shouldn’t be doing on industrial machines) and video editing, most desktops are just as usable as Windows without a terminal…probably more, but idk what kind of software they’re running that warrants a desktop OS and not an embedded system.
