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.
If the erp is Browser based then a lightweight distro with a Browser of your choice. Like Debian.
Personal opinion. If you successfully booted Debian, stick with it. No need to try out a bunch of distros. Debian is well known, well supported, tons of resources AND everything works out of the box with your POS systems. Sold!
Gonna agree with the others here.
Stick to Debian. Especially for the stated use. A slow-moving distro with very few surprises is perfect.
Maybe a kiosk compositor which displays only a single app works well for this use case.
If you’ll be using it in a shop, as a tool and that Debian works well. Well… stick with Debian !
