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Giving An OLD PC New Life – Linux, ChromeOS, Moonlight
Giving An OLD PC New Life – Linux, ChromeOS, Moonlight
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On MPV on can see playback details like decoder or dropped frames by pressing i, but it sure is great player.
Choosing a random DE and just expecting it to work flawlessly is kind of asking for trouble. No it's not straight forward a lot of the time because using Linux is like using advanced mode with all the options displyed and the defaults aren't great. The potential of being a lot better is just like any other OS, it just takes a bit more massaging. Throwing shade because you don't know linux desktop is a bit short sighted in my mind. I'm sure if someone was using Windows for the first time and it was different than their typical MAC OS usage they would have a lot of the same things to say.
Generally lighter desktops have less features and need more work to get them to act like Gnome/KDE. While not a big fan of Xfce it would have made a better choice for someone new to Linux. You not going to get the best video performance on such low power machines. Bought a Wyse 3040 for $20 delivered, to see how bad it really is … A great channel all the same 😉
You should try FydeOS it’s kinda like Chrome OS.
I wonder how well it would run Geforce Now.
You should try lineageOS (android) its completely degoogled so you have the opportunity to load a non google app store like aurora.
My thoughts are going in the direction of turning these into a android tv box
i currently use a i3-3220, with debian and gnome. it works perfectly.
I'd still recommend you try a less old but equally cheap version, the dell wyse 5070. I picked one up for £40 recently.
What about embedded spyware, malware, etc in these recycled computers?
What if the seller is DNS hijacking the known IP address of the motherboard in your recycled computer.???
What about known CVE vulnerabilities in the older CPU, memory, etc.???
The list goes on..
I've been looking around for good remote desktop solutions and found Parsec to be waaay better than Moonlight/Sunshine. Am I missing something?
I’m thinking of trying a 5070 with the J5005 Quad Core CPU option and adding another LAN port for Pfsense/Opnsense VM usage inside Proxmox 😅
this is a real stretch and you are basically doing a disservice here – yeah you do add caveats but not strongly enough
You missed one of the best uses for this machine….as an "X client"!!
X windows has two parts to it. : the client and the server.
You run the server on a big beefy machine, and the client on this little thin and light. This is how it was done back in the day. You had a mainframe or a mini computer running a flavor of UNIX and it was running the X server, and you plugged in a whole bunch of "X terminals" that could only run the X client and work the display attached to it.
My university ran an RS6000 mini computer running AIX and had an X terminal stuffed in the back behind all the mainframe terminals. (It was an IBM shop, so the mainframe in the "dinosaur pin", (complete with Haylon system), was running VM/ESA with MUSIC/SP for the students to log into.)
The point is, that X was designed for running like this….
Also, Xfce and MATE are easier to use than what you chose to use. Also Gnome is known for being a bit of a resource oinker, KDE may have been the better option for the fat desktop.
I did enjoy the video, I usually do enjoy your videos, I notice this video did not seem to be up to your usual high standards . Audio seem to drop out a couple times. There were other things, but I can't really put my finger on them.
Thank you for your time….
XFCE is my go to "light weight" desktop, MATE is my main desktop but it takes a bit more OOMPH to run…running debian, make sure you install zram-tools…it helps ALOT!
Very cool, even anemic stuff can run XFCE easily. Linux desktop has a bit of learning curve (the app names and what they do is the tricky part) but it's solid and works well
preload is also a good app:preload is an adaptive readahead daemon that prefetches files mapped by applications from the disk to reduce application startup time.
Keep em coming!!!!
Like every one else said use A Lightweight Linux Desktop Environment Like XFCE LQXT And Mate
I’d suggest Mint Cinnamon or Mint XFCE. I’ve even gotten my whole family using Linux Mint because it’s a great take for desktops.
I do want to point out the irony in complainging about linux when you specifically mean Debian, while praising ChromeOS which is linux. :^)
Try any of those machines with AtlasOS, a Windows "stripper" that leaves you with an lightweight, more performant version of Windows 10 or 11. Got to be better than Linux on the desktop.
The Dell Wyze 5070 is the machine to get. Especially the Pentium-based Extended version, with a PCIe slot.
NIce video!
Congrats for trying some Desktop Enviroments
I bought PC for $250 AUD ($180 USD?)
it had a i5 4th gen , but upgraded it an i7 4th gen ($20 AUD), Installed Linux Mint, using it for home server for Avorion and Minecraft to play games with my dad. Using MobaXterm on my windows desktop, I was able to learn command lines, while my wife watches Netflix or play on Citra.
I was curious if XFCE would be lightweight enough.
Question, why use sunshine when you are using an nvidia card. The geforce experience still has the shield streaming built in, so you dont have to go through all of the set up of sunshine.
Maybe once sunshine has a bit more dev time and is easier to setup on all platforms it will be my remote server of choice. Until then I will use a mix of GFE and moonlight, and parsec.
Of course your bookmarks are still there. They're stored in your ~/ directory.
On linux-firefox try > in search write about:config> search Vaapi and change from false to true and restart firefox. then check if you lose any frames and if is a lot or les
I have a Celeron J1800 dual core nano PC that struggles just a bit too much using Windows 10 to be considered useable for every day use. It has 8 GB RAM and a small SSD. I installed the latest Ubuntu on it and it is much more useable…. to the point where I would call it useable for every day use. I put Chrome OS on it hoping it would be even better, but ended up switching it back to Ubuntu.
The cool thing is I loaned it to a friend who has almost zero computer skills who simply wants to browse a few websites and watch YouTube videos. It is just as easy for them to use for them as their old Windows 10 computer was.
I'm an old-school geek, and have many computers at my disposal, all of them relatively old.
The systems I use most are 2 1 litre PC's – a 7130u (by far my newest system) and a 3220T, and a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB running Raspberry Pi OS.
The PC's are excellent for browsing, streaming YouTube videos/Netflix, as well as watching movies from my home network…. Oh yeah, I have a server as well. The Raspberry Pi is "OK" for browsing, and excellent at streaming.
Anyways, I did look up the Wyse 5060 on eBay thinking I might like to tinker with one, but I seriously have way too many gadgets at this time (if there is such a thing).
whaaat i JUST bought a 5060 to run home assistant on, i want like, 5 more they're so cheap and decently powerful for stuff like this