I got my big chance at work today.
We have a bunch of information screens at work, like 30-40 of them. All they do is basically run a slideshow of images with news and stuff like what's on sale in the canteen.
Boss said he was tired of paying like $100/year in licenses for each of the PCs running the screens. So he asked me to come up with a Linux proof of concept by next week.
Little does he know that it's already done and I'm going to show it to him tomorrow morning, not even 24 hours after he gave me the assignment.
I'm not just going to give him an info screen machine that works at least as well as the Windows 10 LTSB ones. I'm gonna give him one that requires fewer manhours to deploy as well because their Win 10 versions still need you to manually create an overnight reboot task, enable auto-login, disable the screen timeout, set an IP and some other small junk.
I have a kickstarter file and accompanying scripts for Ubuntu set up.
Put an Ubuntu Server Netboot USB stick into a machine (it's like 60MB), add "ks=https://example.com/ks.cfg" to the end of the grub entry. Hit enter, and watch it go.
Come back 30-60 mins later and there's a fully complete box. Chromium based slideshow, cron jobs, auto-updates, everything.