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.
Don't you have any other requirements for a POS? Like connecting a card reader, special software etc. Those will probably be your main problem, not the OS.
If the erp is Browser based then a lightweight distro with a Browser of your choice. Like Debian.
Maybe a kiosk compositor which displays only a single app works well for this use case.
https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage
Are you planning on using them as a pos? I'm not sure if an open pos os exists
Yeah, but the software is self hosted and accesed via browser. I think I'm going with everyone's recommendations and going Debian.
Gonna agree with the others here.
Stick to Debian. Especially for the stated use. A slow-moving distro with very few surprises is perfect.
