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0 pointsConst-me2y ago0 comments

The hardware can be fast, actually. Here’s an example of relatively modern industrial x86: https://www.onlogic.com/ml100g-41/ That thing is probably faster than half of currently sold laptops.

However, containers or Ubuntu Linux don’t perform great in that environment. Ubuntu is for desktops, containers are for cloud data centers. An offline stand-alone device is different. BTW, end users don’t typically aware that thing is a computer at all.

Personally, I usually pick Alpine or Debian Linux for similar use cases, bare metal i.e. without any containers.

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cannonpalms2y ago

> Ubuntu is for desktops

Tell that to their (much larger, more profitable, and better-funded) server org. This is far from true.

iopq2y ago

It also works much better as a server. Snaps work really well for things like certbot

On Desktop you have to worry about things like... UIs, sound, Wine, etc.

ngcc_hk2y ago

That is the moat they tried to cross. Imagine you have a PyTorch app and run on iOS, arm based, amd based and intel … cloud, or embedded. just imagine. You scale and embed as your business case, not as any one firm current strategy is.

Or at least you have some case as heaven never come. Or come just we do not aware now like internet. Can you need to use ibm to rub sna to provide a token ring based network. In 1980 …

Imagine and let us or they competite …

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