I’m gonna stray slightly off topic here, but personally, if I were in the business of deploying HMI panels on the regular, I’d spend a bunch of time trying to develop some sort of minimal Linux “Open HMI” distro that had exactly enough to boot X server and go straight to running a Vision Client, Perspective Workstation, or Chrome.
I also recently read some stuff about running X apps inside Docker containers via X11 forwarding… so it would be interesting to explore containerizing the HMI portion, which would give you a bit of a security sandbox and also make it easier to update if you needed a new launcher or workstation version independent of the underlying OS.
