Comment on Stick PC for a media client?
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months agoInteresting, did you have windows on it, or did you throw a real OS on it? If so, what distro/DE?
Comment on Stick PC for a media client?
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months agoInteresting, did you have windows on it, or did you throw a real OS on it? If so, what distro/DE?
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It came with windows 10, and claimed to be upgradeable to 11 (it wasn’t). I used it with lmde, though, so the upgrade lie, while was a shite thing to do, didn’t really affect me.
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Interesting, I assume lmde would be comparable to a say fedora based plasma bigscreen install resource wise. It’s not like you were using a super lightweight distro. I’m actually surprised the plasma bigscreen devs haven’t made a super light weight install guide based off alpine or a pared down debian or arch for lowend hardware like OP is asking about.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I’m hoping the BigScreen install would be better as a settopbox, but I wanted a portable PC lol
It was smooth enough, just slow. A bit expected for how intensive lmde is, but I really wanted it to work with that. Maybe I’m judging too harshly
yaroto98@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve been looking into these PCs as a replacement roku box since responding to the thread. I have a shield, and its fine, but I don’t think it’s worth the price. It’s glitchy and the 3rd party launcher sometimes flips out. It also keeps wanting me to up the refresh rate, but whenever I do, it breaks. My TV doesn’t like it despite it being supported.