Was given this little wintel box by a friend fairly recently, but I haven’t yet even powered it on. I don’t have a power cable for it unfortunately but when I do, what do you think I should do with it? What would you do with it?
I think it could potentially be just a basic lightweight desktop for web browsing and such, maybe a little smart tv box or something like that to replace the Chromecast I’m ashamed to admit I use, maybe run some basic self hosted stuff like pihole or home assistant? Could probably be a little emulation machine for retro games but I doubt it would be capable of much more than that. But I’m not sure there’s too many ideas! I need suggestions people
You could check for Linux support. I suppose it runs on an Arm-Processor.
Maybe it runs PostmarketOs.
Edit: If you can run Linux on it:
Selfhosted:
On-Device:
It would be odd if a device labeled “Wintel Pro” had an arm CPU.
Wintel means Windows on Intel, or more broadly Windows on any x86 or x86_64 processor.
Forgejo > Gitea, though.
Looks interesting. But i am used to gitea. I use it for Years now on my workplace and in my homelab.
Maybe i will try Forgejo in The future.
For what it’s worth I was able to migrate my docker of gitea to a docker of forgejo by just changing the image to be forgejo and remaining some if the environment variables. It uses the game data and database so it’s basically a drop in replacement that they have instructions for on their website.
Makes trying it out pretty simple, not sure about migrating back to gitea from forgejo though.
Seems most of these Wintel boxes are Intel Celeron/Atom based, so it should be able to run just about any Linux OS.
Well the portemanteau suggests it’s WINdows on inTEL, so that makes sense.
Well than the possibilities are endless for OP. Let The Linux-Party begin :P