__Miguel_Apr 14, 2025

I have come into possession of a few #wyse3040 mini PCs. 2GB of RAM and 8GB of eMMC storage.

There are plenty of ideas floating around on what to use them for (including #Adguardhome, #Kodi, and #Octoprint), but I have also been toying with desktop distros.

Unsurprisingly, GNOME and Plasma are out of the window, the poor thing will OOM and lock up randomly when being used.

I have found a few distros that work surprisingly well (sitting at under 400MB idle at the desktop), and unsurprisingly those have all been XFCE or LXDE-based, though BunsenLabs also works, all on a Debian base, though Alpine + XFCE is surprisingly snappy.

I do have sound missing on some, and I'd love to know what I can do to make that work on both Alpine and those Debian-based distros that are missing audio, so if anyone has an idea, let me know.

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Something else I would also LOVE to try out, but don't have nearly enough #Linux knowledge to do, is to get an extremely small base image that only has the drivers needed for the machine available, plus general USB drivers you can reasonably expect like keyboard, mouse, and storage.

If anyone has any hints on any of those things, I'd be glad to know, since there are quite a few of these low-spec machines (or even higher-spec but with excruciatingly low eMMC drives) that could benefit from a barebones solution.

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Apr 14, 2025 at 10:56amWeb