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It's funny because we switched from thin clients to fat clients some 30-40 years back.
Except at the company I work for. We switched from thin clients to laptops (which are used as thin clients) last year.
About 15 years ago we started transitioning from on-site computing to cloud. Now we're reversing the trend under the guise of "edge computing".
I'm sure we did a cycle of network booting thin clients and windows terminal services about 10 or 15 years ago. 🤔
I might have skipped that cycle. Local always.
If you skipped the cycle of VDI, consider yourself lucky lol
They offer VDI at my workplace but they are so locked down that it's completely useless for any real work. But I know that some departments do use them. Fuck 'em.
Not if you’re an enterprise. I worked at a company where 80% of our workers (so over 2000) were on thin clients, even remotely. We could manage and upgrade the entire fleet easily from a single point. Ran the servers in house but were able to switch a portion to the cloud if we needed. We were doing that 20+ years ago.