I'm surprised no one has mentioned that KDE revived the Plasma Bigscreen project. No idea on the ETA but assuming all goes well I can see it becoming my daily driver very quickly.

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/get/

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moltopoco 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

SteamOS/Bazzite also makes it pretty easy to integrate flatpaks into its gamepad-oriented UI. I hope that leads to the development of more apps that work with a remote control or gamepad, which would then also work on Plasma Bigscreen.

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IshKebab 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem with open source TV solutions like that is that they never support legal streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and so on.

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baobun 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think you got that backwards.

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Acrobatic_Road 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm failing to see a problem with that.

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simonmales 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Savage, but accurate.

But I argue for these projects to have a long tail, they need revenue.

A few have tried by selling hardware, but it never lands mainstream enough.

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Spivak 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Live sports / tv is the one you can't really work around when your device doesn't have DRM support.

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pabs3 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Presumably locked bootloaders on smart TVs are a problem that would block usage of that project?