I’ve never touched one but 4 words into Google gave me the answer. The magic words I used was: intel compute stick headless

I do teach Google-fu and this first lesson was free.

Edit: was supposed to be answer to the other poster, not OP.

Anyways good luck on the compute stick OP, it can be almost what you want! It’s a pc with WiFi.

The Intel compute stick seems ideal for running Batocera or Lakka

other than that I’m not really sure how you’d use it as a server other than a learning experience. what all do you use the raspberry pi 4 to host? I know you can run a bunch of stuff on a pi, but I wouldn’t think about running my docker stack one even though I know you can. the same goes for the compute stick, you’re not going to want to run something heavy. does the does compute stick even function headless? that would be the first thing I’d check if you’re want to use it as some sort of server.

I had one quite some time ago so my memory is probably not perfect here. it was almost good enough for most things. I feel like there was an issue where it only had 32bit support for some stuff, but this was years ago.

I do remember it had decent support for Ubuntu out of the box.

It had a ton of bios updates when it first came out, so step one is I'd go make sure you've got at least a recent version.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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