[olug] Intel Compute Stick + Linux

[Jared Bernard]

Does your neighbor have a smart phone? If so, have you considered using a
Chromecast? It works great for casting any type of media on your local
network, cloud services or phone itself. Its a simple solution and cheap.
It sounds like that's all he wants to do and maybe a full computing
experience is overkill. If he doesn't have a smart phone already, I
probably wouldn't suggest this option as its not as user friendly to do the
same directly from a PC.

Jared
On Jul 11, 2015 11:28 PM, "Kevin D. Snodgrass" <kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Anyone install Ubuntu on an Intel Compute Stick?
> Next door neighbor, not a computer guy but a truck driver, wants something
> set up to allow him to show vacation and family pics and movies on his HD
> TV in the living room.  My first thought was a micro-ITX, similar to the
> computers that used to be in the AIM lab but while searching for something
> like that I found the Compute Stick.
> He used to use Windows on his PC but I showed him Linux and he liked it,
> so when Windows hosed itself during a software update a friend of his
> installed Ubuntu 12.04LTS and my neighbor has been very happy with it.
> Would like to install the exact same version/desktop/etc so the interface
> is exactly the same.  Looks like a Compute Stick + wireless KB/mouse would
> do the trick.
> Read that the Linux Realtek WiFi driver is only available by request, so
> it might be a PITA.
> Any advice?  Other options that might be better?
>  Kevin D. Snodgrass
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