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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Wyse 5060, good, cheap desktop
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:56:29 -0000 (UTC)
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The Dell Wyse 5060 thin client came in. All the changes in the BIOS needed 
to install Linux (or Windows) had already been done for me. It was in like 
new condition and Linux Mint 21.3 Xfce installed and completely upgraded in 
30 minutes. (I put the ISO on 2.0 USB drive or it would have installed 
faster on 3.x Live USB.) It works well "out of box." It streams full screen 
HD and seems almost like using my i5 Dell Micro. (Same power supply, almost 
the same size.) Linux supports the R5E GPU and and audio works well. Even 
supports my audio volume settings on my keyboard. I'm thinking of getting 
another one and sending it to my dad for a backup. No fan. Can use 16 GBs of 
RAM and has a SATA port and enough room to accommodate a 2.5" SATA SSD, but 
you would have to provide extender cables for that. The SATA flash drive 
that it comes with is 64 GB "MLC" half height module, which fits without an 
extender cable.

At any rate, it was a successful experiment. The newest version of Linux 
Mint runs on it — I assume any Linux distribution would run well on it. It 
would probably run Windows 10 acceptably. (I don't compile programs, don't 
have a lot browser windows open at a time and don't create multimedia 
presentations, but for how I use a computer this one works fine.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404844862714 

The big heat sink makes it significantly heavier than my Optiplex Micro 
computers. That was a surprise, I thought it would be lighter because of the 
plastic case. (It has a metal chassis, however — well built.)

I'm guessing this little computer would work really well as a remote client.

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine