Now we only need a TV that doesn't send screenshots back to the vendor.
This is easy, don't connect your TV to the Internet and use it as a monitor for a mini PC running Plasma Bigscreen.
Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma
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#62Big 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.
How is it on older or budget hardware though? It’s been a long time since I tried KDE, and in between even worked with Xfce because Gnome was a bit more resource intensive. Is it still the case that in terms of hardware specs and demand of the hardware, KDE needs/uses more than Gnome? I guess Xfce will be in a different league capability wise and resource requirement wise.
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#63Just 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.
Could this same kind of interface have potential for use in the handheld console form factor? The gamepad-like buttons on a handheld are often reminiscent of those on a TV remote control. The handheld generally adds touchscreen control, but this feels like it might be comparatively easy to account for. Of course, ultimately we'd probably want to see something that's sort of halfway between this Bigscreen and Plasma Mobile. Perhaps a new project altogether?
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#64"Built on Modern Linux Technologies"
> D-bus
alright!
on a more serious note, should remove that incase that was put there by AI.
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#65Big 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…
What are you talking about, spectacle is everything I want in a screenshot tool and I do not want it to be any other way. If you want something that just takes a picture then you might as well go back to 2012.
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#66but it will be hard to play DRM protected media, eg Netflix on a device like this, right?
the magic trick is just to not, netflix won't even stream you 4k 90% of the time even if you do have all the requirements.
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#67Are there existing alternatives to this? I use KDE, but I have also heard Steam OS has something similar.
steamos is just kde.
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#68Too bad can't access $CorpStreamingVideoService full-resolution on linux :(
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#69"Built on Modern Linux Technologies" > D-bus alright! on a more serious note, should remove that incase that was put there by AI.
Wait dbus isn't considered modern? What's the alternative these days?
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#70I'm really wondering about what is that ASIO4ALL uninstaller doing in there