Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro

[reygle@lemmy.world]

I'm a Plex guy so that part is appealing but I admit I mostly watch youtube in this scenario

[qkalligula@my-place.social]

@Reygle it looks like you can build it and or use an rpi 4 build

*secretly i just want more info on it myself :D*

[jodanlime@midwest.social]

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.

[4am@lemm.ee]

Linux doesn't work on TV

proceeds to name 3 distros that not only work but do gaming

My brother in Christ…

[ulrich@feddit.org]

I mean could have just read the next sentence and that would have cleared up your confusion...

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

NUC? Check http://minisforum.com/.

[reygle@lemmy.world]

LOVE Minisforum- but I'm looking for an interesting distro, not interesting hardware to run it on.

[ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

That appears to be hardware, not a distro

[madame_gaymes@programming.dev]

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.

[madame_gaymes@programming.dev]

I think you misunderstood, hence the downvotes.

OP is asking what a good distro is for a media center PC, as in the PC's video output will be connected to the TV's video input. At which point Linux does not give two shits.

Sounds like you thought they wanted to stream/cast via some TV app or something, but that just sounds like a nightmare and I'm not sure that anyone would even want to try to do that. Just run Linux and use the TV as a big monitor, be done with smart TV garbage.

[crawancon@lemm.ee]

I would have thought open/libreElec would have worked.

other mentionables centered around media are AVLinux , Ubuntu studio, and dynebolic.

[horse@lemmygrad.ml]

Puppy Linux

[reygle@lemmy.world]

dynebolic

Ooh neat there's one I've never heard of

[marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Please tell me more about your work and how you use Nix in it. I'm interested.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

Oh, sorry, my bad.

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

My bad, apologies.

[madame_gaymes@programming.dev]

I can't tell if you're being serious or facetious

I assure you it isn't all that glorious, though, just a lot of configs. NixOS is just my favorite method of infrastructure-as-code, and in conjunction with nixops I can't imagine going back to anything else unless the project required it for some reason. Disaster recovery is simple, and testing/pushing config changes to hundreds of machines is almost too easy.

I have a clunky set of configs, for self-hosting at home and small side-clients, I slapped together you can look at, but again it's not all that special and I wouldn't necessarily follow this for real production stuffs. It also doesn't utilize any of the fancy NixOS stuff, fairly basic and Docker heavy.

https://codeberg.org/madamegaymes/NixOS-Docker-Framework

[crawancon@lemm.ee]

it's not well known and has had some down time but has been around for more than 20 years.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

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.

[nanook@friendica.eskimo.com]

@Ulrich @Reygle There are Android televisions, Android uses a Linux kernel, some of them you can jailbreak, once you get access you can install whatever you like and remove what you don't.