I bought one and used it for a year in college and ran a custom Linux ramdisk OS with a few different chroots on the EMMC. A lot of these things can’t really ru

I bought one and used it for a year in college and ran a custom Linux ramdisk OS with a few different chroots on the EMMC. A lot of these things can’t really run Windows (I never tried but I’m told they can boot into the copy they ship with a few times but probably don’t last and certainly can’t update.) setting up Linux on them requires a lot of care (I had to build a custom kernel to get graphics on mine to work at all.) It’s better to think of them like a weird embedded device that happens to be mostly compatible with desktop computers. Yes it’s EMMC (think SDcard but without a socket, it’s not super fast) and most OSes let you use that as a block device (and most of the firmware will let you boot from it.) Mine had an SDcard socket that I used for really big stuff (anything closed source, any builds so I didn’t burn the EMMC out, and anything I needed to run in wine.)