No problem. Looks like bluetooth and sound need some sort of configuration.
I’ve got an old Acer AspireOne that has been killing me. The very light distros don’t support the display. I just get a garbled screen. It has an HDMI port so I’ve been trying to make it a Streaming Box. Kodi workes fine but using a browser for cackle, plutoTV or other free streaming site doesn’t work worth a damn. In fact, general web surfing doesn’t work well at all. Wifi or Cat5 cable makes no difference.
Some models of the Acer AspireOne actually came wit Linux pre-installed. I’ve got a few older Thinkpads that will surf and stream from web just fine but they don’t have a HDMI port to connect to the TV and my TV doesn’t have a VGA port like our prior TV did.
I’m not looking for High Def - 4k or anything like that. The PlutoTV addon for Kodi works great but is only available for Kodi Krypton, the latest. I did figure how to install Krypton on Ubuntu 18.04 but it was tricky. Normally 18.04 comes with Kodi Leai which the PlutoTV addon doesn’t work for.
PlutoTV is the best free streaming I’ve found. The rest have super B grade stuff I’ve never heard of. I still do a little bit of the torrent thing for stuff that I just can’t find anywhere else. Stuff I download play fine on the old Acer. Just found Firefly and my son hasn’t seen it yet. Both he and I are into Sci-Fi and the boy makes me proud because he loved the original Star Trek series but has no use for the newer versions of the series.
Sorry for what has become a rambling post. I started commenting because we actually come from slightly different perspectives. You are trying to figure out how to use old computers for streaming, and I am often trying to figure out how to repurpose retired streaming devices. Even using pay services they are so cheap and save so much compared to cable that I do not mind buying extras when they are on sale, but then I don't know what to do with them.
Years ago my AppleTV box that we were using to stream DirecTV Now started overheating and working poorly. It had been infected with some kind of malware that was being used for data mining. So I thought that there must be other computing tasks other than streaming that it could be good for. Of course there are game, calculating and other tasks that you can download apps for, but it is a little pointless if you already have a decent computer, or two, or three, or... The old AppleTV is just sitting in a drawer these days.
We stream all the content that we watch. We haven't had cable for over 6 years. We use pay services quite a bit, but we share them with my elderly parents. The Sling TV plan we pay for can stream to up to 3 devices at once and has a couple hundred hours of DVR. I don't even know what the limitation is for Amazon Prime services. We also get specials from Hulu, Netflix, Showtime, HBO, and the like. I typically get a special for a month or two or however long they are offered and dump them as soon as the price goes back to normal.
Of course our first streaming experience came from Netflix after we bought a Blu-ray player that had it included. When DirecTV Now first became available they provided free AppleTVs or Amazon Fire TV players depending on how long you subscribed for up front... We thought that we had an agreement where the price would not increase, but they started jacking things up within the first year or so. After it became "AT&T Now" the prices became so exorbitant that the only advantage over cable was that we have two houses and we could watch our paid content at either. We dumped them as did most of their other customers.
At this point we have tried most of the widely known pay and free streaming services and have tried several types of streaming players as well. Despite others loving Rokus, AppleTVs, and Android players, my favorites have been the FireTV sticks and boxes, which are actually based on Android but with some mods that I actually appreciate most of the time. I have a quite a few older generation versions that I no longer use and am always trying to figure out what to do with them. Over the years almost all of them have been on sale for $30 and the newer ones are much better than previous generations.
I have a couple TVs with more than one attached so that I can have a different selection of apps that would normally use up all the storage. I did appreciate 2nd generation the FireTV box because it had expandable SD card storage built in. You actually can buy a cheap adapter that adds storage to the 4k firesticks as well, but its a little more complicated.
I use small Windows PCs hooked to a couple of TVs for streaming because I use a program called Audials One to capture streams. It is on “sale” for about $20 most of the time. They add features every year so I typically upgrade. The computers were inexpensive school and government surplus from eBay. The ones that I use actually have 3rd generation core I-5 and I-7 processors along with SSDs. These are actually about 10 years old but still run Windows 10 and can easily capture high definition streams. Neither has a dedicated GPU. It does take a little tweaking and I do not compress as much as I would with newer processors.
We use fire sticks on the same TVs for a more cable like experience when we don't feel like capturing the shows and movies.
There is not a Linux equivalent for Audials One that I know of.