@thingsiplay so they are investing/donating to malware? Is that what they think they're doing? It would be funny if that was the case, ngl

@zante yeah they've been on some kind of "LOOK AT ME I'M SO EDGY" rampage lately

@neme what the heck did I just read. Doesn't Facebook depend on linux servers? This zuck guy is just banning shit for the sake of it at this point

@Shatur any laptop with a fairly recent amd GPU should be just fine honestly. Even if nvidia cards are slightly better, they can fuck up your whole desktop environment in a random update (among other errors on that line), so imo it's not worth the trouble.

@bunitor @eldavi yeah, why? This just shows that, if more hardware companies actively supported linux, there would be no issues left for non-tech end users, which would be awesome.

Please buy laptops and desktops from tuxedo, system76, framework, etc, and recommend them. They're doing a great job and do deserve the support.

@Dave well that's a shame. To be fair, the only time i tried so use it over wifi was on the 2ds, which was pretty slow. It worked only with low resolution, so just a cool experiment, not really practical.

That said yeah if you replace the laptop I'd focus on the best wifi card possible and leave the power to the server. I'm actually planning to switch an old laptop to an orange pi for this reason.

@Dave @deadbeef for the gaming part you don't even need the second pc connected to the tv. I've been trying sunshine and moonlight (a server and client for game streaming) and it's been running really great in the same network. The client can even run on an old nintendo 2ds, so your laptop should do more than fine to try, that way you'd only have a media and a gaming clients on the laptop, everything else to the server in another room.
I'm currently using a similar setup but with Jellyfin instead of kodi, working great for a few months.