Comment on What OS do you like for digital signage/kiosk/dashboard only?
jrgd@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Realistically, any LTS distro from a netinstaller that can use a kiosk compositor like cage. So realistically, the usual suspects of Debian, OpenSUSE, AlmaLinux, RockyLinux (or a derivative of one if the native distro doesn’t support Raspberry Pi). Then you just have cage open the browser of choice on startup (e.g. chromium --start-fullscreen <url>) and you have a lightweight and relatively secure web kiosk.
bluGill@fedia.io 5 days ago
Cage is not what I want from a kiosk. I want window management, I just want a few fixed windows in fixed positions. Sometimes I want to rotate between a few windows. I'm running Magicmirror now which gives what I want, but it is too slow and too locked into the everything is a web app model.