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Tons of Point of Sale terminals run Windows instead of Linux for some reason, probably because the software they run is only written for Windows.
A low end Windows PC can be had very cheap these days. Why bother doing something proprietary, if you can just cobble together something from off the shelf parts?
This isn't even remotely true. Everyone knows that if you're trying to do a cheap embedded product, you use SBCs and Linux. Using Windows for these kinds of applications is almost always the result of a company having a contract with Microsoft that leads their development strategy towards Microsoft's offerings rather than the best offerings.
Also, in what universe is a Linux platform more proprietary than Windows?
People here are delusional, booting windows eats more ram than your typical embedded product needs to run. Same goes the hard drive.
And this people also think maintaining a yocto/build root image is proprietary 🤷♂️