Neat! I’m somewhat familiar with homebrew but I haven’t kept up with it in years. I didn’t know you could put Linux on it too
I wonder how it would do as a media center for the living room. I’d much rather use a Wii remote to navigate on a TV instead of buttons.
Being able to play Jellyfin off of it somehow would be amazing, I imagine it will need a custom app. Possibly based off of this thing? https://www.wiimc.org/about/
A Wii u might be better than a Wii. It was pretty underpowered from day 1 and that thing has no hardware video decode. The wiiu has hardware video decode for h264 video.
To be fair, I’ve heard Wii U isn’t particularly pleasant running Linux either. I’ve never run Linux on my homebrewed Wii U, but someone in my Linux Users Group brought theirs in once.
I have heard of people putting main linux on wiis but in my case I didn’t do that niiofetxh just happens to be a neofetch fork for wii on the homebrew list of apps.
Yeah I put Linux on the Wii. It ran ICEwm. Very slow using a browser due to only 100MB of RAM and writing to the SD card. Acceptable performance as headless Linux, but the kernel couldn’t install cifs (due to kernel size restriction) or some other tools
Neat! I’m somewhat familiar with homebrew but I haven’t kept up with it in years. I didn’t know you could put Linux on it too
I wonder how it would do as a media center for the living room. I’d much rather use a Wii remote to navigate on a TV instead of buttons.
Being able to play Jellyfin off of it somehow would be amazing, I imagine it will need a custom app. Possibly based off of this thing? https://www.wiimc.org/about/
A Wii u might be better than a Wii. It was pretty underpowered from day 1 and that thing has no hardware video decode. The wiiu has hardware video decode for h264 video.
To be fair, I’ve heard Wii U isn’t particularly pleasant running Linux either. I’ve never run Linux on my homebrewed Wii U, but someone in my Linux Users Group brought theirs in once.
I have heard of people putting main linux on wiis but in my case I didn’t do that niiofetxh just happens to be a neofetch fork for wii on the homebrew list of apps.
This is the bulk of where I got apps from https://oscwii.org/library
Yeah I put Linux on the Wii. It ran ICEwm. Very slow using a browser due to only 100MB of RAM and writing to the SD card. Acceptable performance as headless Linux, but the kernel couldn’t install cifs (due to kernel size restriction) or some other tools