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Suggestion of distro for TV/server combo?
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Thanks for the suggestion! That sounds really cool, I got my hopes up for a second, but it looks like 5Ghz wifi is required. It makes sense, for speed/latency reasons, but unfortunately the old laptop plugged into the TV is quite old. At least 10 years old, probably more.
I am expecting to replace my current laptop in the next year or so, so maybe I'll look at this setup at that point.
@Dave well that's a shame. To be fair, the only time i tried so use it over wifi was on the 2ds, which was pretty slow. It worked only with low resolution, so just a cool experiment, not really practical.
That said yeah if you replace the laptop I'd focus on the best wifi card possible and leave the power to the server. I'm actually planning to switch an old laptop to an orange pi for this reason.