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( EDIT: It looks like it might be possible to integrate Netflix with MythTV, using Google Chrome, but it may not be easy to set up.Being a technology board, talk of different operating systems and distributions is common.
If you want that, you may need a general-purpose distro with Google Chrome on it in order to be compatible with Netflix's DRM scheme. Honestly though, I'm not sure how either of these play with Netflix. If you want a distro that revolves around that, you could try OpenELEC: OpenELEC is lightweight enough to run on a $20 Raspberry Pi, so your laptop should be plenty strong enough. There also used to be an Ubuntu-based distro for this called MythBuntu, but it seems to have been decommissioned.īesides MythTV, there seems to be another app for this purpose called Kodi. Again, I don't have much personal experience with this application, just going by what I've heard. LinHES is a distro that revolves around MythTV, a media application which can also be installed on general-purpose distros, but might not be as convenient to set up in that case. Maybe look at LinHES? I don't have personal experience with it, but it looks like it's designed for your specific use-case. A specialized "media center" distro may be more appropriate. mpv and youtube-dl can be used to stream youtube videos with a lot more performance, and streamlink has a twitch gui for watching with mpv or vlc.Įveryone else seems to be suggesting general-purpose linux distributions, but that may not be appropriate for this situation. Also, browsers have terrible performance while watching video.
#Lightweight linux distro wiki install
If LXDE is too heavy it's probably time to get a window manager like i3 or openbox (which LXDE also uses), and forget about desktop environments.Įdit: You can install any desktop environment on any distro, so just find a distro you like and a desktop/wm you like and combine them. Try Xubuntu or something else running Xfce and if that's too much try Lubuntu or something else running LXDE. Just saying, there is no one Linux experience. Ubuntu has a reputation for being beginner-friendly, but I find getting anything done on a debian-based distro to be a pain in the ass. Desktop environments have things like desktop icons & menus, while a window manager is just the most important part. That being said, the distro doesn't matter so much as the desktop environment/window manager. If it screams under Windows 7, it's entirely possible video will lag whatever you do. Sorry if I come across as a simpleton here, but in this sphere I basically am. Is there a lightweight-ish Linux distro that can somehow be easily installed, doesn't terrify someone used to Windows, and won't have an issue playing videos or streaming BBC/Netflix/Amazon etc? And I started looking at Puppy Linux but the whole thing was Greek to me.
#Lightweight linux distro wiki how to
Yet I'm a total novice at Linux and have just hit a wall trying to work out how to install Linux Lite using a bootable USB stick (the installation guide says use Win32DiskImager to create the USB, but for whatever reason that programme won't work, gives me some baffling Windows error).
#Lightweight linux distro wiki windows 7
This laptop screams under the weight of its Windows 7 installation (64 bit), making me think of Linux. I want to use this laptop to play video files, and to stream BBC iPlayer and Netflix via wifi. Tried to cram everything into the title there, but to clarify: I have a knackered old laptop plugged into a not-connected-to-anything-else TV via HDMI.
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