PXE Windows OS RDP only 0о?

Question

HP

Hello.
The task is to transfer part of the office users to HP thin clients with zero infrastructure deployment costs.
There is an idea to use PXE + TFTP - there are plenty of instructions.
The problem remains in the choice of OS. The OS will be loaded from the data center, so its size should be as small as possible, even 500 MB is already a lot. OS tasks are simple, only RDP is needed. Tell me from your own experience which one is better to choose, preferably with links to the distribution =). Thank you all in advance.

Answer 1

If HP thin clients are no problem, these clients have a very powerful ThinPro OS. If desired, they can be used as a PC :)
Naturally, there is RDP out of the box (and a bunch of everything to boot, Citrix, vmware, etc.)
As an economy option, you can use Raspberry with rdesktop

Answer 2

If you only need RDP then you can consider thinstation. Either native OS ThinPro from HP (I don’t remember if it can RDP or not :(

Answer 3

I remember we installed windows nt 4 and it had a fairly recent version of rdp, I don’t know if microsoft still supports the latest versions of rdp under nt.

Answer 4

The main problem in your scheme after choosing the OS and hardware is further maintenance. We have customers based on Intel Atom, a stripped-down Linux based OS. Over time, when expanding (before purchasing new equipment) or repairing with replacing the motherboard, problems begin with drivers for the OS. This happened to us when switching from Intel Atom 425/525 to 2600 - a new batch of clients hung for several months until the problem with the drivers was resolved. Well, and support for the desired resolution when the client is working with widescreen large diagonal monitors. When purchasing monitors with a larger diagonal, they also waited for driver updates.