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Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by haunter »

trueismywork wrote: post #10
9dc wrote: post #8

but it will be hard to play DRM protected media, eg Netflix on a device like this, right?

720p using widevine. I play it. It works. Even if I disable DRM in my main browser. And only isolate it to my Netflix account.

You can get 1080p on Linux with Opera https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by 3eb7988a1663 »

trueismywork wrote: post #10
9dc wrote: post #8

but it will be hard to play DRM protected media, eg Netflix on a device like this, right?

720p using widevine. I play it. It works. Even if I disable DRM in my main browser. And only isolate it to my Netflix account.

Is that through a dedicated Netflix profile or is there a way to enable DRM per site?

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by simonask »

olivierestsage wrote: post #7

Big things from KDE lately. If you haven't tried it since the pre-Plasma days, I really recommend giving it a go. Fabulous as a general DE.

Just did recently. I remembered KDE as flexible but cluttered. It’s still flexible, but they really cleaned up nice!

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by SahAssar »

haunter wrote: post #11
trueismywork wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

720p using widevine. I play it. It works. Even if I disable DRM in my main browser. And only isolate it to my Netflix account.

You can get 1080p on Linux with Opera https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

Weird, why just on opera? It uses the same engine (chromium) as many other browsers.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by cromka »

olivierestsage wrote: post #7

Big things from KDE lately. If you haven't tried it since the pre-Plasma days, I really recommend giving it a go. Fabulous as a general DE.

I did, but I don't share the sentiment. Moved this year from macOS and KDE is over-engineered with little thought put into the UX. For example, try to take a screenshot. I was quite literally shaking my head for good couple minutes looking at this abomination. It's so extremely confusing, all over the place, bogged down with tons of switches, modes, it's like you need to spend 30 minutes to understand how this thing works and all the Whys. Took me couple days to realize it was an actual Photo app in its screenshot mode. If only they spent some of their increasing budget on some proper UX usability testing and not rely on their people's gut feelings and a "that'll do" mentality...

Meanwhile, Gnome just works exactly like you'd expect it to. I said it before already, but Gnome is for people moving from macOS and KDE is for ex-Windows veterans. And, for the record, I don't want to praise Gnome's overly-minimalistic approach, either, which too gets annoying when you have to find an extension for every stupid extra setting beyond the defaults. But, all in all, I much prefer it over KDE and wouldn't switch back. Not to mention the aesthetics, because there's no comparison if one shares the Apple/Braun ideals on design.

A plot twist here is that I am also a KDE app developer...

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by sho_hn »

Just to manage expectations: Big Screen is a fairly old project at this point, that has always had a relatively small number of people showing it some love (though I understand recently there's been an uptick again). This is not a new product announcement from us, nor a key focus of the community. That is not the disparage the work being done there in any way, but this most likely isn't quite Kodi just yet.

Re: Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma

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Post by godelski »

This is really cool and I'd love to see TVs ship with it. There's a lack of innovation these days and I think the only way to bring it back is to recognize that computers are environments and people need to be able to build on them. With TVs becoming more powerful this could be a big win.

Make it easy so my aging tech illiterate parents can use it (looks like it does the job, at least as well as any other) but also hackable for people like us, to fix bugs and drive innovation.

My TV is currently a monitor for my computer, so something like this even works for me in the same way steam big picture does. For work, I ssh in. One thing that helps is I use ydotool and my phone and laptop can easily be a keyboard

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