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

[reygle@lemmy.world]

Points for something I've never tried.

[qkalligula@my-place.social]

@Reygle plasma-bigscreen.org/

[algernon@lemmy.ml]

NixOS.

It is good for everything, if you invest a little time[^1] into it.

[^1]: Your entire life, lol.

[ulrich@feddit.org]

Linux pretty much just doesn't work on TV. No platforms have Linux support, unfortunately.

Bazzite, Chimera, Nobara all have a pretty sweet SteamOS-like distro, if you're after gaming and have AMD GPU.

[jodanlime@midwest.social]

https://libreelec.tv/
If you like Kodi this is the business. I have had it working with remotes, the biggest drawback for me was streaming services not supporting 4k on the Odroid N2+ I was trying to use.
Plex worked great through Kodi, and that was my biggest use case.

[jodanlime@midwest.social]

This looks nice!

[reygle@lemmy.world]

Okay this looks kinda neat, but the page says it "isn't available for public use yet"?
More of a DE/tweak than a distro?

[reygle@lemmy.world]

Nix looks like a fun way to wild away 3 weeks, not entirely sure this is what I'm after for a living room TV box.

[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