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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

It's not there yet. But I'm hoping KDE plasma big screen continues to receive love. If it gets into mainstream distributions. It will likely be big. It's a much more smart TV like shell for the KDE desktop. All the familiarity of your Google TV, Apple tv, fire stick, Roku etc. But none of the advertisements or lockdown. With waydroid it should even be able to run most of your Android applications as well as all the native Linux and KDE applications. But again this is something to watch for. Not quite ready for deployment yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This would be awesome!

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It absolutely would be. I'm watching it with great interest. The thought of having a Raspberry Pi and old E-Waste business PC or a cheap n100 or 150 system at the television. Running Games movies everything. It's very attractive.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I was going to say, an old 1L ThinkCentre Tiny, Optiplex Micro, or HP Mini would fit the bill nicely. I already have one set up for retro gaming. It would be nice to get it set up as kore of an overall media center, with a remote-friendly interface. I know I can do that with Libre elec and Kodi but I’m not a fan. KDE is my desktop of choice so I’d love to see what they come up with. Plasma Mobile is solid so I would imagine it could be similar.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm just running Linux with an always on top Kodi on an N100 mini-PC.

    Works fine with a wireless remote for the purpose of being a TV Box that I just have on my living room and use in the same way as I would a commercial TV box.

    Granted, I also use that as a homeserver (its seriously overpowered to just be a TV Box) but that side of things I manage remotely via SSH.

    You don't really need access to the full desktop to run Linux apps if you just want a TV Box.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    True. But having the ability to do that on your own Hardware is still something desirable whether or not you choose to. Yeah I doubt I will pull up a terminal very often from the television LOL. But if I need or want to I still want it there. :-)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well, in all fairness I still have a keyboard and mouse wired to that setup, though it's very rare that I use it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I got a nice little keypad that has a television remote style interface on one side a little rubbery keypad on the underside and an accelerometer inside to use for Mouse input.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I used something like that for a while but I didn't really use the keypad side in practice and the quality of that remote was kinda crap so the most used buttons (normal remote ones on the front) quickly became unreliable. Also I don't find the airmouse all that convenient to use.

    I replaced it with one of these plus I also have a perfectly normal keyboard and mouse connected to that mini-PC in case I need to directly use it (which is rare since even the homeserver stuff I normally do remotely from a normal Desktop PC via SSH).

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