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Fox Is Buying Roku in $22 Billion Deal (variety.com)
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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel like Kodi mediacenter app is one of the main things to consider putting on it. Like, booting some Linux and instantly launchung it, so it's UI is the main UI for user to interact with. It covers most TV usecases of mid 2010s and shines if you have a medialibrary on the network.

But it doesn't cover occasional web browsing, DRMed videostreaming platforms with their own apps, etc. Worse than that, if we don't limit it to just Kodi, we'd need some UI to pick apps, swtich apps, etc, and if that's critical, it's probably worth it to rip an image of some WebOS, like on LG TVs, or an Android fork like on SmartTV boxes/sticks, whatever is less combatative, and methodically carve out bloat and adware, forming an image of inherently insecure/outdated OS that has the UI thing working right.

Outside of SteamOS idk if Linux (not Android) had slick console/SmartTV-like DEs/system-wide GUIs. But since the problem is on the surface, I believe there are some who tried, or configured/themed their environment to act like it.

[–] aloofPenguin@piefed.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Outside of SteamOS idk if Linux (not Android) had slick console/SmartTV-like DEs/system-wide GUIs. But since the problem is on the surface, I believe there are some who tried, or configured/themed their environment to act like it. kde-bigscreen is available, and has that sort of ui, but does require some setup. Also don't know how available it is. I believe it is already in some repos.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

I have the feeling so many people are super enthusiastic about it, it will be a matter of months after it's included in regular KDE that someone will make a "Linux TV" distro centered around plasma bigscreen while minimizing setup complexity, aimed at using it for TV only... And there's some (quiet) rumours that steam might be interested in using KDE bigscreen on the steam machine...