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Can it? Yes. Do you want to? No. It's essentially just a framebuffer, not a GPU; it barely has 2D graphics acceleration. Using any kind of modern DE on it will drive you insane within minutes. Xfce and classic X11 might work.

> Using any kind of modern DE on it will drive you insane within minutes.

Most of them do that anyway, so... shrug

> Xfce and classic X11 might work.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

I use it with ASPEED's latest Windows driver at 1080p, and it does a passable job on my Ampere Altra system for simple tasks.

Most servers don't run an accelerated server desktop and do things like play AAA games and YouTube.

Yes, but it's not going to be speedy, as it is just a dumb framebuffer and the maximum resolution is 1920x1080.

The most modern feature is probably double buffering. :-)

yes, it does-

lspci | grep ASP c2:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family (rev 52)