raspberry pi thin clients

The raspberry pi thin clients tag covers a focused education deployment from Explore Learning, where Raspberry Pi devices connect student workstations to centrally managed Windows virtual machines. Used across roughly 95 UK tutoring centres since around 2014, the fleet supports the browser-based Compass learning software for thousands of learners. This example presents thin clients as a practical endpoint strategy for a narrowly defined workload, rather than a general replacement for full PCs. It also highlights the management benefits of centralizing software and desktop environments, showing how simple, consistent hardware can support distributed classrooms while reducing the need to equip every desk with a conventional computer.