Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro
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I mean could have just read the next sentence and that would have cleared up your confusion...
The next sentence that incorrectly implies AMD is at all a necessity for those distros?
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The next sentence that incorrectly implies AMD is at all a necessity for those distros?
- That's not what I said.
- That would not be the next sentence. Try again.
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- That's not what I said.
- That would not be the next sentence. Try again.
It was the next sentence after the one quoted in the response to you, and it is still very misleading at best.
But, yeah, the second sentence. There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.
Those have apps and must be supported by "platforms" because they are limited hardware with a limited OS.
YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
If that's not what you're saying, you'll probably want to elaborate because I expect there are plenty of readers giving your comment a "wha...?"
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It was the next sentence after the one quoted in the response to you, and it is still very misleading at best.
But, yeah, the second sentence. There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.
Those have apps and must be supported by "platforms" because they are limited hardware with a limited OS.
YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
If that's not what you're saying, you'll probably want to elaborate because I expect there are plenty of readers giving your comment a "wha...?"
It was the next sentence
You're just lying. And I don't know why because everyone can see it. You're not fooling anyone and you're not accomplishing anything.
There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.
Yes there is, in that a PC is much more versatile. But streaming services are a basic function of HTPC.
YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
Yes...they do? And they do support Windows.
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I didn't misunderstand anything. The downvotes are just from salty Linux users who think piracy tools are a direct replacement for streaming services.
A media center is nothing without streaming apps.
Piracy tools are a direct replacement for streaming services. Thats kind of the point of them. In fact they are better.
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I didn't misunderstand anything. The downvotes are just from salty Linux users who think piracy tools are a direct replacement for streaming services.
A media center is nothing without streaming apps.
piracy tools
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Glad you like it, not sure it's a fit for my lazy living room machine though.
Honestly, I picked it because I was lazy. It's such a low maintainance machine. As for the codec, the flatpak version of VLC does it.
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Points for something I've never tried.
I tried using bazzite as a media PC and gave up after a couple of days, this isn't even remotely something I want in my household.
try it on fast hardware and make up your own mind. good luck!
p.s.: plasma bigscreen isn't available for public use and kodi and its derivatives should be tossed in the deepest volcanoes we got.
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Yeah, I'm not sure how well YouTube is going to run on Kodi, I've never actually tried it.
If you have another Linux box around you could install Kodi and try it pretty quickly.At the moment youtube isn't working on kodi
At least for me
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Points for something I've never tried.
Used cachyos for the last couple months, its a graphical installer, automatic everything, and when it loads you get a startup menu that you can click install gaming packages on to get anything youd download for gaming, its supposdely the only distro actually optimized for gaming and detects your hardware automatically to grab everything.
Off the install and one click installing those packages everything on my steam account (after checking proton compatibility cachyos setting) worked fine for me. Blender also works well, but in that case I needed to grab a driver for amd.
Bazzite made me nervous, I like being able to clixk through the install seeing what im doing. I reinstalled windows right before and did dualboot first, before removing windows and sticking with just cachyos. Cachyos was about 10x easier to install than windows and 1000000x faster, like it straight up took 2 minutes maybe while windows takes 2 hours, I was shocked that it was actually done.
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Used cachyos for the last couple months, its a graphical installer, automatic everything, and when it loads you get a startup menu that you can click install gaming packages on to get anything youd download for gaming, its supposdely the only distro actually optimized for gaming and detects your hardware automatically to grab everything.
Off the install and one click installing those packages everything on my steam account (after checking proton compatibility cachyos setting) worked fine for me. Blender also works well, but in that case I needed to grab a driver for amd.
Bazzite made me nervous, I like being able to clixk through the install seeing what im doing. I reinstalled windows right before and did dualboot first, before removing windows and sticking with just cachyos. Cachyos was about 10x easier to install than windows and 1000000x faster, like it straight up took 2 minutes maybe while windows takes 2 hours, I was shocked that it was actually done.
I also really like gparted, originally with the dual boot I had to manually partition the drive for the os and the boot paritition, took a couple minutes to figure our and its very convenient to be able to mess with your ssd easily just by plugging in a usb and booting into the live os from there. Idk if any other installers do that, if anyone knows please let me know, like the usb boots into kde plasma and you can kind of test out the ui while clicking through the gui installer.
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It was the next sentence
You're just lying. And I don't know why because everyone can see it. You're not fooling anyone and you're not accomplishing anything.
There's a huge difference between an HTPC and an Amazon stick, Roku, or "smart" TV.
Yes there is, in that a PC is much more versatile. But streaming services are a basic function of HTPC.
YouTube and Netflix don't need to "support" Linux any more than they need to support Windows for an HTPC.
Yes...they do? And they do support Windows.
I'm... lying?
No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.
And they do support Windows.
Oh god, tell me you're not using the windows store apps for these services on a PC. Even my Alpha kids know better than that.
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I'm... lying?
No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.
And they do support Windows.
Oh god, tell me you're not using the windows store apps for these services on a PC. Even my Alpha kids know better than that.
I'm... lying? No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.
Your lying has nothing to do with apps and services and everything to do with gaslighting people in this thread into believing you weren't wrong instead of just admitting you made a dumb mistake.
Seriously, how can someone be even a little familiar with Linux and be so wrong about internet services working on Linux?
That's a great question, how can you?
And your attitude is just... something else.
Sorry I don't take being gaslit very well.
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I'm... lying? No, it's pretty clear now that you're quite confused about the difference between apps and services.
Your lying has nothing to do with apps and services and everything to do with gaslighting people in this thread into believing you weren't wrong instead of just admitting you made a dumb mistake.
Seriously, how can someone be even a little familiar with Linux and be so wrong about internet services working on Linux?
That's a great question, how can you?
And your attitude is just... something else.
Sorry I don't take being gaslit very well.
Jesus, Buddy. It's not gaslighting to explain how I interpreted your comment, and it's starting to sound like your angry responses are to avoid explaining your position.
Please explain to the class exactly what you mean by services not supporting Linux. No "obviously you know and are just pretending to make me look bad" stuff.
Explain like we're 5.
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Jesus, Buddy. It's not gaslighting to explain how I interpreted your comment, and it's starting to sound like your angry responses are to avoid explaining your position.
Please explain to the class exactly what you mean by services not supporting Linux. No "obviously you know and are just pretending to make me look bad" stuff.
Explain like we're 5.
It's not gaslighting to explain how I interpreted your comment
Oh good now you're gaslighting me about gaslighting.
and it's starting to sound like your angry responses are to avoid explaining your position.
I'm not angry, and I've already explained my position.
Please explain
In the extremely unlikely case that you're legitimately just bad at counting, I advise you to scroll up and try again. There's no point in just rewriting the same comment again because you refuse to.
We're done here.
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It's not gaslighting to explain how I interpreted your comment
Oh good now you're gaslighting me about gaslighting.
and it's starting to sound like your angry responses are to avoid explaining your position.
I'm not angry, and I've already explained my position.
Please explain
In the extremely unlikely case that you're legitimately just bad at counting, I advise you to scroll up and try again. There's no point in just rewriting the same comment again because you refuse to.
We're done here.
Your position was "Linux not supported by platforms". You never explained what that means and no one understood you, clearly.
Almost like... gaslighting.
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Points for something I've never tried.
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done.
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Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done.
I use voidlinux. Best ever.Similar here.
MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch
Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it's still ok
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I daily drive NixOS and use it in many other situations. However, I'm also a systems engineer and it's the distro I use for managing all the environments.
I'm sure it was a joke(ish), but definitely not for the light-hearted or fairweather penguins.
Definitely not for the light-hearted, but if OP is willing to take a month or so to learn Nixlang it actually gets quite easy and you can do pretty much everything with it. No need for Timeshift either. You'd have to really work at breaking it and once its set up that's it.
Not to mention if you upgrade your system/SSD you only need a few key nix files and some dotfiles to basically clone your whole setup, especially if you use home-manager
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Yes but we all know no one talks about Linux and is referring to Android.
@Ulrich I have an android tablet with an termio on it, basically gives me an x-term with an ssh connection. Can also look around locally. Granted they've really screwed up the file system layout, much like Mac fucked up BSD, but it is recognizably Linux.
