I had installed Debian on an Acer Aspire One Laptop. It has a 32-bit Intel Atom CPU with just 1GB of RAM. I obviously can’t run it like a usual desktop anymore, it’s way too slow.
I tried it to connect it to my TV with HDMI to create some sort of “Smart TV” setup, but that didn’t work out because I can’t even play 1080p videos on VLC with it smoothly.
So… What now? Can I only use it for headless stuff like pihole, nextcloud, etc. now?
Is there any hope left for my unsuccessful “Smart TV” contraption?
Honestly, ewaste center.
Not much an atom with a gig of ram can do.
technically there is a lot it could do, but it would not be a number 1 pick for any of it (even if you only have a $100 budget) so i agree, get rid of it.
@slazer2au @maliciousonion it can play music, do IRC, Jabber, vim (neovim even, if you’re lucky). there are even TUI rendering programs for Markdown and EPUB formats
You can get a RaspPi instead, and after a year or two you’ll have saved enough electricity to have paid for itself.
It works fine for me