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Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2020Thursday, June 4th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Make it work more gracefully We’ve been transforming a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client PC into an HTPC using Arch Linux. Last time in Part 2, we got hardware acceleration working so that Kodi and Netflix would play smoothly. Now we want to add a layer of user-friendliness. Switching Media Players In part 2 we […]

Turning a Dell Wyse 3040 into an HTPC (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Now make it do stuff In our quest for an HTPC, we previously talked about installing Arch Linux on the Wyse 3040 back in Part 1. Now that we have a functional system that we can boot, we can proceed with making it actually play media. Hardware Video Acceleration First, it’s worthwhile enabling hardware acceleration […]

Turning a Wyse 3040 Into an HTPC (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2020Sunday, May 24th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

As a wyse mann ynce seide… I recently acquired a Dell Wyse 3040, a thin client PC intended to connect to virtual desktop[s] running remotely. The Wyse 3040 has a quad-core Intel processor, an Atom x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz, which won’t win any benchmark tests (a PassMark score of 896!), and is backed by 2GB […]