Personal opinion. If you successfully booted Debian, stick with it. No need to try out a bunch of distros. Debian is well known, well supported, tons of resources AND everything works out of the box with your POS systems. Sold!
Sold!
Heh, well done fellow internet person.
Glad you liked it fellow inter webs person!
Sold!
Can I get a recipet please?
Thank you, all great points and I'm gonna go with Debian and xfce as DE to keep light.
If the erp is Browser based then a lightweight distro with a Browser of your choice. Like Debian.
If you'll be using it in a shop, as a tool and that Debian works well. Well... stick with Debian !
Maybe debian or fedora, something that isn't too advanced
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.
Luckily no. Only a barcode reader and a receipt printer.
This guy cryptos
Maybe a kiosk compositor which displays only a single app works well for this use case.
I’ve never known a such thing exists, thank you so much for sharing it. Gonna test it out this weekend.
if it is for a small shop, whatever you're used to.
For mass deployment, you'll want to probably use something with proper support
Yes, SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service often ends up being a source of "Linux in the wild" posts.
Gonna agree with the others here.
Stick to Debian. Especially for the stated use. A slow-moving distro with very few surprises is perfect.
Fedora Atomic (Silverblue, etc.), with either KDE or Gnome.
Both look modern and should work on the hardware, and no customer can fuck it up
I'm not sure how well maintained it is, but porteus-kiosk might ve a very good fit for this use case..
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