Oh my god it's happening. Everyone stay calm. Stay fucking calm!
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I've been waiting for Plasma Bigscreen for quite a while for my and eventually my family's living room entertainment system.
Add a DVB receiver and you can just a normal, dumb screen and never have to deal with shitty "smart" TVs again.
Right now? Only buying Android TV because it's the only OS whixh I can manipulate (using ADB).
Hell yeah!
Are there any distros yet that come with it? I have a pi I've been using as an htpc and I'm interested in switching
FYI this won't be out until June.
Huh. I wonder if this is maybe related to the Steam Machine? It would be a good use case for it, and the timing makes sense. I know the Deck boots into Steam Big Picture at boot, but you can get to the desktop, and I think it's KDE. I've only used someone else's Deck for a short time, but I remember it working fine because it has a touch screen. Without that, you need something like this.
I don't think so. It's been around for a while but was unmaintained for a bit so it wasn't compatible with Plasma 6. That's why it was removed from the Debian repositories. It's just been a case of someone who wanted to maintain it coming along. AFAIK it's mainly aimed at Smart TVs.
Ohhhh it's finally coming!
Looking forward to trying it.
I'm super pumped to finally have something better than Nvidia Sheild or Kodi
Honestly, I want to like Kodi, but even this first screenshot looks much better than anything I've been able to muster together in Kodi.
Same here. Kodi's UI was nice back in the days when it was XBMC. These days we have different ideas on usability.
Controlling it with a controller is awful, I had to change a lot of settings and it still jumps to a different scene any time someone accidentally bumps the joystick when picking it up or forgets to use the dpad for 10s rewind
Yeah I feel the same way. I feel like Kodi, unfortunately, makes it harder to use my HTPC rather than easier
Yeah this has been on the books for ages. It's not being developed by KDE's core team and it wasn't making much progress for a while but I'm really happy yo see it come out.
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i wonder if I'll be possible to flash this on my nvidia shield when it's out
That would be great!
Reintroduces, really. Iirc it was originally made for plasma 5 and and was broken by changes in Plasma 6. This is "we fixed the stuff we broke".
there's a bunch of improvements too
Yup, it disappeared from Debian repositories in 13/Trixie.
How do streaming services like Disney, prime, Netflix, and hbo run on these? Is it possible?
I need something dead simple for my wife.
I set up Jellyfin and my wife and kids love it. We have no streaming services now.
Probably the same as on a Linux desktop now, the browser sites work fine but you won't get 4k or HDR.
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Unsubscribe to all off them and sail the high seas
I should also add that I live in a third would country so all the streaming services are dirt cheap here.
I think YouTube premium is like $3 a month or something like that.
cries in hard drive prices
Install Kodi and pirate shows from those services.
Or buy and rip DVDs to put it on your Jellyfin homeserver
How useful is this in the grand scheme of things if the applications themselves don't have a 10ft UI? I guess you'd need to limit yourself and find apps specifically made to be shown on a TV.. within a repository that caters desktop apps. Blending TV's and desktops is hard...
I have a Linux HTPC on Mint where I have the Pegasus frontend with Jellyfin, VacuumTube, and a bunch of games. The main usability issue is the need to exit each app differently to get back to Pegasus. There’s no notion of using a home button to go back to the home screen and pause the current process, which is what I’d be hoping to get with Bigscreen. Otherwise, Pegasus is fine for launching apps with a remote, and Jellyfin and VacuumTube work fine with a remote as well.
Jellyfin, VacuumTube, and a bunch of games.
I use Kodi for all of this plus IPTV, etc. It has a customizable "home", menus, etc. that make it easy to navigate. You can also run audio/video in the background while navigating.
It can be a pain to setup everything but I think it's worth it.
I use Kodi as my HTPC with a FLIRC remote.
I rarely exit to desktop but, when I do, I often use a wireless keyboard.
It's somewhat annoying having to switch between the two. I imagine this Bigscreen desktop might help.
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