Why you should do a research before trying to do something

Around three months ago, a friend gave me his old laptop. It's a Toshiba NB510. We checked the specs together and found out that it only supports 2GB RAM max so he just gave it to me. To be honest, I didn't know what would I do with the laptop but there's no harm in getting more laptops. Three months passed and I finally thought up of a way to use that laptop that is using it as a media center for the shared TV In my sharehouse. There used to be an ISP-issued STB which i stole for around 3 months and right after i started using it for the shared TV again they took it away from the house. I wish I had kept it instead. Anyway, the laptop has a broken screen so I had to use a capture card to act as a display. I realized that the laptop doesnt' even have an HDMI port so I bought a VGA to HDMI converter which costed me 100k. That amount of money would've been enough to buy a proper STB but I didn't care and I wanted the thrill. I came up with the idea to use LibreELEC as the OS for the laptop. I tried flashing it to a USB stick which I plan to use as the main boot and storage device but it didn't boot. I don't know why but apparently the laptop just doesn't support LibreELEC or something. So I tried using Alpine instead but it didn't boot either. So I just said fuck it and use my favorite distro that always works that is the glorious Arch Linux. I got it to boot on the laptop first try and installed Kodi. I used autologin to run Kodi standalone right after boot. Everything was going well at that point until I realized that the UI was extremely slow. I just thought of it as a quirk of my video capture device so I ignored it. I got Jellyfin client set up on Kodi and finally it was all set up. The only that was left was to try it on the TV. I hooked the laptop up to the TV and played Family Guy from my Jellyfin server aand.. lo and behold! the thing ran slower than a snail. Fortunately I'm smart so I knew the problem must be that Kodi isn't using the iGPU at all. I checked it and I was right. Kodi is trying to decode H.264 on an ancient CPU. So I thought of fixing the driver but apparently it's the worst supported GPU I've ever known and the last thread about the GPU is from 2012. So I just.. gave up. Maybe I'm actually dumb for not researching beforehand.. Well who cares. I can still use the laptop for something. Let's just hope the power consumption will be worth it.