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  • You could probably fit something inside the chassis, but why? It doesn’t have standard mounting hardware for any ATX form factor, you’ll need to source a slim PSU, and at the end of the day, without a ton of effort to make the build work, and additional thought put into the cooling (etc) you’re going to destroy a working console for a pretty average result with a lot of trade-offs.

    TL;DR, bad idea. You can do better.





  • It’s not quite what you’ve asked for here, but as a Dev I’d be remiss if I didn’t shill for Gentoo.

    It ticks your rolling release box, has fantastic docs, a huge package repository (and the community repo Guru), and by design enables almost infinite configurability and customisation. We also have a binary package repository now for popular architectures, so you can choose to avoid compiling if you don’t want to deviate from sane defaults (or only compile in cases where you do!)

    On the hardware side, we have fantastic support for a number of architectures, I recently brought up a SPARC system and have some arch64 and riscv in the past.

    Finally, even if you just decide to check the distro out, the process of installing, configuring, and maintaining a Linux system is outlined in detail within our handbook, and can provide a peek behind the scenes at what some other distros abstract; it’s a fantastic learning experience for those interested.

    Finally, we have fantastic support through volunteers in official IRC channels and forums, as well as unofficial hubs like discord.

    Hopefully I’ve planted a seed and you’ll check it out down the line. :)