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?

  • anon5621
    12·
    3 months ago

    Btw videos not working well because of absense of hardware decoding codecs, and it is make software decoding.

    • GnuLinuxDude
      7·
      3 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.