Yes, my dad actually suggested the exact same thing! I should definitely give it a thought. I'm also planning to use the same Linux machine to serve family pho

Yes, my dad actually suggested the exact same thing! I should definitely give it a thought. I'm also planning to use the same Linux machine to serve family photos to our PS4 in the living room — the photos would be on an external hard drive connected to it, basically turning it into a home media server alongside HomeOS. One box quietly doing everything in the background. The photo widget would fit nicely into that setup since the images would already be on the machine.