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Deploying, maintaining and supporting desktop PCs isn’t cheap, and also represents an ongoing headache for IT. On paper the answer is obvious – at least for some types of user – simply give them a thin client device instead and run their desktop virtually on the server. Given the way in which desktop virtualisation software …

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  1. WylieCoyoteUK

    I have seen two separate customerss recently running Linux thin clients using RDP to run a windows desktop with Office etc. the only problems were with a locally connected MFD printing and scanning

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  2. big_D Silver badge

    We used them for years, but our softphone system won't run over a thin client, so we replaced the Igel Linux Embedded thin clients for connection to Linux servers for development and Windows Terminal Servers for E-Mail and Office for low-end Windows PCs with Pentium processors and 2GB RAM.

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