Intel Compute Stick for Home Server? - eviltoast

I recently acquired an Intel Compute Stick during a liquidation sale. Has anyone used one of these as a home server? I currently host UmbrelOS on a RPi 4, which works great, but I can’t imagine what I would use the Compute Stick for…

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    1 year ago

    I had one quite some time ago so my memory is probably not perfect here. it was almost good enough for most things. I feel like there was an issue where it only had 32bit support for some stuff, but this was years ago.

    I do remember it had decent support for Ubuntu out of the box.

    It had a ton of bios updates when it first came out, so step one is I’d go make sure you’ve got at least a recent version.