Thin clients are the kind of hardware that should be a home labber’s open secret, but somehow still feels like insider baseball. They are cheap, quiet, and usually built to last years in the office ...

From what I understand, thin clients are supposed to function just like workstations. Well, that hasn't been the case for me. I have a DOS based program that uses a printer table to asign each network ...

Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup. In two previous articles I talked about ...

Thin clients used to feel like a dead end for my home lab. They looked like tiny desktops, and I kept expecting them to behave like bargain PCs with a few compromises. That mindset made every ...

Thin-client hardware has standardized on x86 architecture, but software varies significantly among vendors -- major manufacturers like Dell and HP increasingly rely on third-party operating systems ...