I downloaded the current Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Desktop image and burned it to USB stick using Rufus. The Beelink uses a 12v supply and uses just 12 watts of power. I say had because I removed it and added a Kingston 256GB SSD that I already had. I bought a Beelink GK55 mini PC which has a Celeren 4125 quad core at 2GHz (bursting to 2.7), 2x USB3 & 2x USB2 plus a M2 256GB M2 drive which had Windows 10 preinstalled. The new PC needed to work with the following components: I don't have any facility for a permanent setup so whatever I use has to be portable and battery powered. I decided to hang on to the Pi4/Stellarmate but also try a small PC build with faster processor etc. I'd need to let it take two images before I saw the first in the PA screen and it took a lot longer than it should to complete. Capturing an image from my Canon 600D would take 9-10 seconds to download so polar alignment was arduous. I bought a Pi4 4GB to run it but even using an external SSD as boot/storage it was slow. I'm a big fan of Jasem's Stellarmate and the polished implementation he's managed to put together. The contents below have been my experience and Your Mileage will definitely vary. In the hope that it might be helpful I've jotted down my experiences over the last few days with building Linux/Kstars/INDI/EKOS from scratch.
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