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

  • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
    2·
    5 days ago

    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.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
      0·
      9 days ago

      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

            • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              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.

              • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
                1·
                6 days ago

                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…

  • snroh@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • the_weez@midwest.social
    1·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    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.

    • Reygle@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 days ago

      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

    • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
      0·
      10 days ago

      I daily drive NixOS and use it in many other situations. However, I’m also a systems engineer and it’s the distro I use for managing all the environments.

      I’m sure it was a joke(ish), but definitely not for the light-hearted or fairweather penguins.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    01·
    9 days ago

    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.

    • madame_gaymes@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I think you misunderstood, hence the downvotes.

      OP is asking what a good distro is for a media center PC, as in the PC’s video output will be connected to the TV’s video input. At which point Linux does not give two shits.

      Sounds like you thought they wanted to stream/cast via some TV app or something, but that just sounds like a nightmare and I’m not sure that anyone would even want to try to do that. Just run Linux and use the TV as a big monitor, be done with smart TV garbage.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        01·
        10 days ago

        I didn’t misunderstand anything. The downvotes are just from salty Linux users who think piracy tools are a direct replacement for streaming services.

        A media center is nothing without streaming apps.

        • nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
          0·
          8 days ago

          @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.