We used Wyse S50 thin clients in the past…Was a good experiment, but not the utopia we wanted them to be, actually not really impressed with them at all. Now we’re mostly using Chromebooks/boxes and Guacamole for “thin client” type applications accessed through the browser…Most of the Chromebooks sent to the suddenly WFH employees last March are just using the “guest” account built in from the factory on the Chromebooks, they just need a web browser to get access Guacamole and some using also webphone (using ctxSIP connecting to an Asterisk server), and also Zoom/Jitsi conferences only need a “guest” browser session. I know I can do Chrome Management on them and have the browser pop up automatically, etc…But I tend to KISS. User access is managed through Guacamole (Chrome guest mode wont remember UN/PWs between sessions), and they are very cheap devices if they are stolen, lost, damaged, etc… I was starting to integrate TOTP to Guacamole just before the pandemic forced WFH, waiting now for some sort of return to “normal” to roll it out , but may just have to do it with everyone at home (training nightmare, user resistance)…
I used to follow http://davelargo.blogspot.com/ closely on thin clients in a municipal government environment (I work in municipal government/utilities also), seemed to have many of the same ideas I had at the same time in the late 2000s, he implemented a little differently (and had more user acceptance), but I stopped following him for some unknown reason…Looking at his posts now, looks like he’s moving more Chromebook/browser based also.