No, you're an Operating System. If you were a service, I'd be going into task manager, killing your process, and setting the service startup mode to Disabled.
True, but if you’re a small independent business it’s pretty reasonable to believe they don’t have any techies. Just grabbing a basic Windows PC that you already understand is probably a simple enough solution.
I’m talking like six monitors like I see at the local servo. Guessing they’re using some kind of displaylink usb adapters? Does Linux play OK with them?
For static setups like PC’s it is fine. For laptops however my experience is that every distro I tried fails horribly in providing a decent UX. Each and every time I plug in my monitor while my laptop is in sleep mode (so each time I worked at the office) I need to set up the proper resolution again when it wakes. I don’t know if Linux cannot handle 5120x1440 properly, but both X11 and Wayland just reset to glorious 640x480.
Because most people in these businesses are not remotely tech savvy enough to use anything slightly different from the computers they are used to, which for most people is windows. They don’t want to tinker, they don’t want to learn something, so they’re not going to. They want to set it and forget it.
If they hired someone like you to come set it up, they need to feel comfortable editing/modifying it. They’re not going to contract you forever.
Simply put: they want to do a little as possible and they are probably being told from people several levels higher that they will be getting a TV with a computer hooked up to it to handle all their menu. They probably have software or something all set up for it. No one would ever question it, least of all a franchise owner.
On an individual basis, sure, I imagine somebody could and maybe even should do what you’re suggesting.
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