I’d put the 1gb ram laptops to server/kodi/retroarch/something mode and focus on the three decent machines for anything that requires a modern web browser, or add some ram. Porteus might be worth a shot if you’ve not tried it and want to push the Firefox on a potato idea.
I don’t think this is a one OS fits all situation, unless maybe Gentoo.
How bad is really bad?
AntiX is a good choice. Other option is a usb3 drive for each family member so everyone has their own portable AntiX on a stick.
MX is the related project with a more standard install and could be worth a look, the Fluxbox option should be quite light.
Each user could have a personal AntiX system on persistent usb3 and each system could have a bare metal MX Linux install. Just see what wins out via natural selection over time.
LXQT is another option for a full desktop environment that will run on a potato. If family members are mainly just users and you are admin, the base OS may not matter much. They could switch between a potato running Alpine and a good system running Fedora and if they are just logging into LXQT to launch browser, office, email etc the internal system plumbing is not gonna concern them.
Thank you.
I think I will aim for =>8
so any nuc with a number 7 or more would do the job?
It seems unreasonable with the hardware, even with nice things.
I run Gentoo, with lots of binaries, on my 2011 iMac just fine but encoding HD video on it feels like abuse.
I’m using a 2011 imac & 2010 macbook pro as my main devices. I have an rpi4 as a little media center & personal server.
2160p x265 looks great on the pi, 2160p x264 is grim. Encoding 2160p on any of my systems is pain.
Ongoing it would be nice to be able to re-encode the occasional 2160p video faster than a tenth of real time or feeling like I’m overly stressing very old hardware.
Think I may keep an eye out for a 2nd hand nuc, I like small & quiet and I didn’t realize until posting this thread that cpu encoding is preferred to gpu. A nuc would also be nice for some better retro game action than the pi4.
I don’t have anything that can play 4k h264 aside from my phone.
My Rpi4 plays 4k h265 beautifully, so I like h265. Space efficient is just a bonus.
mpv & ffmpeg have been my go to’s for a decade or so…but mpv on the Rpi4 can’t yet manage 4k 2160p afaik, so Kodi it is at the moment.
Thanks
What is resizable BAR?
Dryad saddle already mentioned, not sure if definitive but if you break a bit off and it smells like watermelon that’s another indicator.
Thx, the sensible administration is appreciated 👍
My only issue with kids on a flight is if I’m responsible for them. If they are someone else’s problem, all is well.
Must of taken Henry quite a while to come up with the name for his band :)
The tune is heavily influenced by The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
Michael Franti was the driving force afaik, a year of two after that he went on to form Spearhead. A less silly name, no amazing tunes but a few albums of nice chilled music.
Just checked and surprised to see a new Spearhead tune just dropped, still the same sunny vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxJDXEzkRSM&pp=ygUObWljaGFlbCBmcmFudGk%3D
Likely Mastodon.
Similar too Twitter/Bluesky and able to follow Lemmy, Kbin and lots of other areas of the Fediverse.
I got this album a year or two after it came out.
Have just realized right now they are The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy not Hypocrisy.
Doh.
Thanks, I’m in Glasgow…which translates to ‘Dear Green Place’.
He’s 3 bananas long
It does indeed, thank you.
Don’t often read about a mushroom that was considered edible until ~1940’s. Sneaky assassin.
Good to know, thanks