# What type of panel PCs or IPCs does everyone use?

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**Created:** [April 1, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-type-of-panel-pcs-or-ipcs-does-everyone-use/57929 "2022-04-01T13:09:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-type-of-panel-pcs-or-ipcs-does-everyone-use/57929/7 "2022-04-01T15:22:24Z")

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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.

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