Ideas/Project ideas for a windows 8.1 tablet

Hardware
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Esteemed members, ladies and gentlemen,

So I got fed up with having to re-auth my Alexa media player after every upgrade and was looking at an alternative and found an old windows 8 tablet laying around. Installed squeezelite on it and voalá problem solved.

Unfortunately this tablet is SLOW it’s a decade old but looks brand new.
Spec wise it’s a Z3735G with 1GB of RAM. Device is the Linx 7 tablet which can only run Windows 8 to the best of my knowledge

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Running VMs on it is too slow, can’t install WSL AFAIK

I was thinking of making it a kiosk with a lightweight frontend but what exactly do I use ?

Also thinking of adding voice command but again need some help in this - can it be a remote mic for HA ?

Any other ideas please chip in

Thank you

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Linux. Use Linux. Try Fedora.

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If only this were possible
Device is the Linx 7 tablet

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Ah, it looks like you’re going to have to find out any distribution that supports 32-bit executables. Which is harder than harder to find. I would just recommend not using the device. It’s too old to be useful. Unless I guess you’re going to run DOS games on it.

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I don’t know, I disagree, machine is faster than a raspberry pi 3 so there’s potential

Besides it’s good enough and is now in production albeit only acting as a squeelite media speaker for HA

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Being VERY ambitious at the moment… this has got to fail :rofl:

( Will know in 20 minutes :laughing: )

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