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[–] mods_are_assholes 5 points 9 months ago

No manufacturer wants to take the risk to reinvent a wheel that may be less secure.

I mean, yeah it would be ideal of the manufacturer created their own OS but I also know that nearly everyone hires the cheapest, least skilled devs for projects like this.

And not all of them are full OSs, XP had a bunch of creative ways you could remove system components to make basically a kiosk with almost no other functions.