I've encountered several Linux kiosks where hitting Ctrl+F3 (or 4, 5, 6, 7...etc) just immediately dropped me into a root shell on the device. It seems like most of the time if I can press Ctrl+function key, it'll almost always drop out of the kiosk app at at least give me a login prompt. Sometimes it'll bother asking for a password, sometimes not.
I've also encountered Linux kiosks where the app crashed and it is just sitting at a busybox terminal with root access as well.
If you even slightly know how Windows IoT or Embedded works, setting up a Windows kiosk is pretty dang simple. There's simple wizards baked into Embedded/IoT that walk you through it.
> Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all
Fully agreed here. They messed up shipping this with what appears to be full-fat Windows 7. Dumb move on their part.
I've also encountered Linux kiosks where the app crashed and it is just sitting at a busybox terminal with root access as well.
If you even slightly know how Windows IoT or Embedded works, setting up a Windows kiosk is pretty dang simple. There's simple wizards baked into Embedded/IoT that walk you through it.
> Desktop Windows isn't made for kiosk applications at all
Fully agreed here. They messed up shipping this with what appears to be full-fat Windows 7. Dumb move on their part.