Moreover, the thin-client design helps to insulate your application development investment from future operating system changes (on the client side). This benefit is attributed to two factors.

As the thin client is set to be deployed at another site, I'll be investigating whether I can use a low-cost Linux box such as a Raspberry Pi or a Compute Stick to replace it as a printer server for ...

A thin client is a dumb terminal with very limited processing capabilities, therefore whatever processing power the end user machine exhibits is derived through the network cable from the server.

Do you happen to know what the bandwidth requirements are for the HP Thin clients? We are considering deploying them (30) at each of 5 locations and just having one central thin client server.