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?

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 months ago

    Since it’s an old acer netbook with an Intel atom cpu it is highly unlikely it has any hardware decoding built in.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      It should as that’s a basic feature. It probably is just for mpeg2 at lower resolutions