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Well Played Mauer
Jun 1, 2003

We'll always have Cabo
I grabbed a Beelink N100 to use as an Apple TV supplement on my living room tv. My primary use case is sports streams off a browser without having to deal with airplay, and some NES/SNES emulation now that my kid is old enough to leave iPad games behind.

Do I need to do anything special beyond throwing Kubuntu or fedora, retroarch, and a codec package onto the thing? Bluetooth should pick up my wireless Xbox controller I imagine, and I grabbed a Logitech k400 for mouse/keyboard work.

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Well Played Mauer
Jun 1, 2003

We'll always have Cabo
Update:
Got the Beelink, threw Fedora on it, set up SSH with fail2ban so I don't have to janitor it on a giant TV, and have some emulation of public domain content going. PS4 controller Bluetooth'd right up. It's got me curious about finding some sort of big picture style DE where I can navigate more of the system with the controller, but I got a cheap wireles Logitech mouse/keyboard combo thing that worked even at the BIOS screen, so whatever. And since it's using an Intel GPU, I get to see what all the fuss is about on ~~Wayland~~ without wanting to shoot myself or my video card.

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