Points for something I’ve never tried.
Edit: Think I’ll just blast Bazzite on it. The recent Gnome scales well and it has nice performance tweaks.
Cheers
None. Move your living room to the forest and never look back. Be free.
But there’s no memes out there!?
The memes are the friends we made along the way :)
Not free, hard to get food and necessities, but yeah, some days I wish it was that easy, though I’d be hella bored.
Okay this looks kinda neat, but the page says it “isn’t available for public use yet”? More of a DE/tweak than a distro?
@Reygle it looks like you can build it and or use an rpi 4 build
*secretly i just want more info on it myself :D*
This looks nice!
This is very cool! Thanks for sharing.
I am annoyed by the weird UX differences between Kodi and Jellyfin. I really want this to be a thing. I’ve got an N100 box running libreelec right now. I really want Bigscreen to work on x86. Just need to have patience.
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.
Similar here.
MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch
Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it’s still ok
What do you record with mythTV?
TV programs…
Via online websites or via TV capture card?
Ah, I see what you’re asking now.
I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.
Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.
Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.
We’ve not watched live TV for ages and it’s weird sitting through adverts now when we’re at friends / family
We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it’s our central AV device. The Audio is sync’d off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.
I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.
I’ve not had a TV for like 10 years, just using youtube and torrents, but this seems interesting for an idea… I wonder where my aerial connection port is…
https://libreelec.tv/ If you like Kodi this is the business. I have had it working with remotes, the biggest drawback for me was streaming services not supporting 4k on the Odroid N2+ I was trying to use. Plex worked great through Kodi, and that was my biggest use case.
I’m a Plex guy so that part is appealing but I admit I mostly watch youtube in this scenario
Yeah, I’m not sure how well YouTube is going to run on Kodi, I’ve never actually tried it. If you have another Linux box around you could install Kodi and try it pretty quickly.
At the moment youtube isn’t working on kodi :(
At least for me
I would have thought open/libreElec would have worked.
other mentionables centered around media are AVLinux , Ubuntu studio, and dynebolic.
Batocera is nice too. It’s half an emulation console and half Kodi. You can tell it to launch Kodi as default too. Whereas LibreElec is only Kodi with a limited gaming ability
dynebolic
Ooh neat there’s one I’ve never heard of
it’s not well known and has had some down time but has been around for more than 20 years.
Cool!
Nix looks like a fun way to wild away 3 weeks, not entirely sure this is what I’m after for a living room TV box. :D
I tried using bazzite as a media PC and gave up after a couple of days, this isn’t even remotely something I want in my household.
try it on fast hardware and make up your own mind. good luck!
p.s.: plasma bigscreen isn’t available for public use and kodi and its derivatives should be tossed in the deepest volcanoes we got.
I got openSUSE Leap. It’s stable and reliable. My complaint is that I needed to go thru all the hoops to get all the media codecs I need to play what I want.
Glad you like it, not sure it’s a fit for my lazy living room machine though.
Honestly, I picked it because I was lazy. It’s such a low maintainance machine. As for the codec, the flatpak version of VLC does it.
NUC? Check http://minisforum.com/.
That appears to be hardware, not a distro
Oh, sorry, my bad.
LOVE Minisforum- but I’m looking for an interesting distro, not interesting hardware to run it on. :)
My bad, apologies.
No worries, their machines rule, I have a bd790i motherboard!
I use Q4OS as it is super light but Debian based. Install KDEConnect and I run a dumb large TV as my TV and control it from my phone. If younwa5ch YT, run Freetube.
I’ve been using Nobara. If you are looking for an open system to tinker with, it is a great choice. It runs with pretty bleeding edge packages though.
Used cachyos for the last couple months, its a graphical installer, automatic everything, and when it loads you get a startup menu that you can click install gaming packages on to get anything youd download for gaming, its supposdely the only distro actually optimized for gaming and detects your hardware automatically to grab everything.
Off the install and one click installing those packages everything on my steam account (after checking proton compatibility cachyos setting) worked fine for me. Blender also works well, but in that case I needed to grab a driver for amd.
Bazzite made me nervous, I like being able to clixk through the install seeing what im doing. I reinstalled windows right before and did dualboot first, before removing windows and sticking with just cachyos. Cachyos was about 10x easier to install than windows and 1000000x faster, like it straight up took 2 minutes maybe while windows takes 2 hours, I was shocked that it was actually done.
I also really like gparted, originally with the dual boot I had to manually partition the drive for the os and the boot paritition, took a couple minutes to figure our and its very convenient to be able to mess with your ssd easily just by plugging in a usb and booting into the live os from there. Idk if any other installers do that, if anyone knows please let me know, like the usb boots into kde plasma and you can kind of test out the ui while clicking through the gui installer.
Linux pretty much just doesn’t work on TV. No streaming platforms have Linux support, unfortunately.
Bazzite, Chimera, Nobara all have a pretty sweet SteamOS-like distro, if you’re after gaming and have AMD GPU.
Linux doesn’t work on TV
proceeds to name 3 distros that not only work but do gaming
My brother in Christ…
I mean could have just read the next sentence and that would have cleared up your confusion…
The next sentence that incorrectly implies AMD is at all a necessity for those distros?
- That’s not what I said.
- That would not be the next sentence. Try again.
It was the next sentence after the list of distros referenced in the response to you, and it is still very misleading at best.
But, yeah, the second sentence. There’s a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or “smart” TV.
Those have apps and must be supported by “platforms” because they are limited hardware with a limited OS.
YouTube and Netflix don’t need to “support” Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
If that’s not what you’re saying, you’ll probably want to elaborate because I expect there are plenty of readers giving your comment a “wha…?”
“E” - since Buddy is trying to imply I changed my comment after he responded, no. I added clarity within a couple minutes, changing no ideas. Talk about gaslighting with this guy.
It was the next sentence
You’re just lying. And I don’t know why because everyone can see it. You’re not fooling anyone and you’re not accomplishing anything.
There’s a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or “smart” TV.
Yes there is, in that a PC is much more versatile. But streaming services are a basic function of HTPC.
YouTube and Netflix don’t need to “support” Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
Yes…they do? And they do support Windows.
E: the comment above was edited and they continued to double down and argue instead of just admitting that they made a mistake.
I’m… lying?
No, it’s pretty clear now that you’re quite confused about the difference between apps and services.
And they do support Windows.
Oh god, tell me you’re not using the windows store apps for these services on a PC. Even my Alpha kids know better than that.
Seriously, how can someone be even a little familiar with Linux and be so wrong about internet services working on Linux?
And your attitude is just… something else.
Yes but we all know no one talks about Linux and is referring to Android.
@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they’ve really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.
…cool?
