2026-09-14 19:26 UTC
Replies (6)
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@gnufuu@lemmy.ca 2026-09-14 19:37
OSMC: osmc.tv
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@TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml 2026-09-14 20:59
Unless you are just trying to use up hardware you already have laying around, do not do this. The experience is extremely suboptimal and much more expensive than just buying a better streaming box. If you have not spent money yet there is still time to avoid this mistake.
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@dlsloop@lemmy.zip 2026-09-14 19:39
I literally just finished doing this over the weekend. I went with fedora since I find it more stable and easier to use than the other distros plasma bigscreen works on. There have been a few bugs when using a controller but other than that it works great! I highly recommend it.
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@blobjim@hexbear.net 2026-09-14 21:26
There’s a list right on the website: plasma-bigscreen.org/get/ Since Plasma bigscreen is part of KDE, you probably want to start with a KDE desktop environment. So just get Fedora Kinoite or Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop. To install plasma-bigscreen on Kinoite, you run rpm-ostree install plasma-bigscreen and then reboot the computer.
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@Peasley@lemmy.world 2026-09-15 01:02
My suggestion would be KDE Neon or Fedora, since both are straightforward and have official Plasma Bigscreen packages. I don’t think atomic distros like Bazzite are a good fit for something like this since Plasma Bigscreen does not appear to have an official flatpak
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@MangoCats@feddit.it 2026-09-15 03:27
Check LibreElec, if it ticks all your boxes, it’s probably the best (simplest) choice. You can go much more general purpose, but if you don’t need general purpose then all that general purpose capability amounts to (intentional or accidental) attack surface you don’t need.