Asus and Dell announce their own Mac Minis but this time with blackjack and hookers.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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"not power themselfs" ?
Microsoft will determine when the PC needs to be booted up as per your employer's demands 😆
It's like a Chromebook, but for Windows. Only it doesn't run Windows. Please buy our garbage.
Our best hope is that companies outside the US stop buying Microsoft. People will need to produce computers for them. Then we in the US can import them and run Linux.
‘Someone, do something about our problem so we can take advantage of it’
Fuck this is exhausting
Its a reality. Why does apple use usb c now? Because someone else got tired of their shit.
Do you say similar about all the corporations and governments who have relied on the US for decades? Hmmm?
Yes. Yes we do. But please fix you god damned country
At least Linux runs well on old hardware (and still supports)
I'm so sick of Microsoft I actually installed Fedora KDE Plasma.
Genuinely, it's nicer than windows lol
The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying, but overall it works really well, has more features and looks slick.
Ain't ever going back.
Excellent! It's hard to believe how much easier the Linux experience can be than Windows. Take your PC and boot Linux Mint from a thumb drive. If you like it, it can be installed in like 5 clicks. (assuming you already prepped the machine, backed up, etc. I dual booted at first but that only lasted about 2 weeks before I wiped windows)
I have personally since moved to Debian KDE Plasma. It's a target platform at work, and it's more of a server machine at home. Plus doing a few more things via CLI or via finding old forum posts or documentation is fine by me.
I might try Garuda on the new PC we've been putting together, though. It looks like a well polished gaming-focused OS that is also Arch-based to get me into that whole family of distros. (because Valve went that way of course, and in the future I'll always want a PC that can seamlessly run SteamVR. Plus computers are fun.)
The occasional forum crawling is a bit annoying
I was on windows since 3.1, dual booted various distros of Linux the past 15 years, and removed windows from my computers over a year ago.
I would have to crawl forums to find fixes for stupid shit in windows once in awhile, less than Linux 15 years ago, but more than Linux in the lead up to getting rid of it. The thing that really pissed me off was the most egregious issues with win10/11 that id be looking for solutions to would always be changed back on the next update.
Even Steam works perfectly fine.
The only games I can't play are games that install rootkits that I don't want anyway. Now I don't have to explain to people that I don't want malware on my PC and can just say "Ah, shucks, can't play, Linux" 10/10 recommend.
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Unlike Dell, Asus did mention a few more details - the system will pack DDR5 memory, HDMI, USB-A, USB-C, WiFi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, and 2.5G Ethernet. Exact details regarding the USB and HDMI port were not offered, however.
Isn't the amount of memory kind of a tiny bit more important than which generation it is?
It's a streaming PC. Specs don't really matter. Windows 365@4k60Hz
No, no. You misunderstood. You have a “memory” of a thing called DDR5, which you used to be able to afford and purchase. You are supposed to bring that memory with you to reminisce fondly while using this piece of junk Dell is trying to sell you.
Going back to the dumb terminal days of the 60s & 70s
Now with added surveillance and advertising!
If the pc has specs to run something from the cloud it has specs to run a local os.
Depends on what you do and depends on how it's set up.
At a previous job we had thin clients set up to connect to some remote desktops, and indeed they were running an OS locally, but had barely enough resources to run the OS and the client app.
Maybe uould find a version of linux that would run on them. I'm not a linux aficionado but I've found cut-down flavours useful in the past when I've needed something that could run on a crippled potato.
If you can run it on a pi, you can run it on these
Yep, just looking at it screams thin client. This will have just enough for networking (wifi/bluetooth), running three monitors (no gaming), some 3.5mm audio, and usb 2.0. If it's business focues, probably some remote mgmt stuff, and maybe a default VPN client.
So a thin client?
Yes. You run windows remotely, probably through that 2.5G ethernet.
I'd rather be struck by lightning than use cloud computing through Wi-Fi.
Sorry I meant that along the lines of "this is already a thing just marketed differently." Hyping up something that already exists as something new just feels odd and forced. Like if I made a car but called them "vroom vrooms" and marketed them for driving down Young street only.
My guess for the only difference is that it's locked to Azure
I guess to keep with a car analogy that makes it one of those old electric toy cars that raced on a track with slots for the car.
Yeah I was gonna say. Dell has been making Wyse Thin Clients for a long ass time. This isn't anything particularly new other than using W365.
I see this going nowhere
For a few hundred bucks I have a mini PC with which I can do anything I want
This thing, even at half price, would only allow office365, with monthly payments.
Who the fuck would want that and not just spend a few bucks more and have an actual computer?
Same people that lease cars and buy macs I guess. Ones that don't care about anything other than the small subset of things they need and don't want to hassle with anything else and have expendable income.
These won't amount to much, windows 365 is expensive. Companies really only have a use case for these over dedicated hardware for specific use cases that make sense, of which there isn't a lot vs dedicated computers.
I feel bad for the poor bastards that will certainly have these forced on them at the office or at school.
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Fuck you MS
Yes, terrible disease.
And so, the technofiefdom begins.
Well, when the AI market crashes they will have lots of unused datacenters... Guess they found an use for that after all.
Back in the late 80’s we were calling “diskless” computers “dickless” computers. It was a different time, but the message is still correct.
Back in 2008-2009 I shared this crazy idea with my peers that Microsoft was moving towards an "always connected" OS that would probably be hosted on their servers, because you can make more money charging someone for access to their data than charging them once for their OS.
they laughed it off and told me that nobody would fall for that.
....who's laughing now assholes?
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yeah Im so glad I finally went to linux for my personal computing. Really should have done it about a decade earlier.
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