HP Thin Pro converted into a portable Xbox cloud gaming machine | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

azure plank Jun 28, 2025, 9:22 AM

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I also riced its desktop to look like the Xbox 360 dashboard forgot to take a pic of that but otherwise

I travel for work and picked up the ThinPro for 20 NZD

Then attached an old 2.5inch SATA SSD to an adapter I found in my old stuff, I then had to do some rigmarole to get Mint to play nice with and boot before HP's boutique OS

Which also runs far far slower then Linux mint on this hardware.

Attached the casing for the wardrobe with 3m adhesive tape and updated grub so if it's unplugged it's not the end of the world for the mint drive.

Lastly painted over all branding using my Warhammer chaos black because no HP on this bad boy's outer casing.

Considered Bazzite but steam console mode could be too powerful for this CPU/GPU will however modify my second one into a steam console since I bought two.

cinder idol Jun 28, 2025, 1:59 PM

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that is awesome

azure plank Jun 29, 2025, 1:37 AM

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HP's OS does not do the hardware justice 💀

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I kept one as a blank slate but it's pretty boring/windows like Linux distro

azure plank Jul 4, 2025, 6:27 AM

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Controller Mapped and on screen keyboard settings are set so I don't need a mouse and keyboard and antimicro runs on startup automatically now with a slight delay aswell

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Next step will be the wifi card and then ricing it away from an Xbox 360 added an display port to HDMI adaptor cable and 3m adhesed it to the side

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azure plank Jul 4, 2025, 9:11 AM

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Still deciding on a theme and a way to design it

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