I’m looking for a sleek ui that’ll support firefox, jellyfin, and steam. I would prefer not to use kodi.
I found this project I might try https://github.com/dudewheresmycode/TenFootGnome
Any suggestions?
Why not plasma bigscreen its more maintained.
Also what’s wrong with Kodi 21?
I’m so excited for this to officially release. As soon as plasma bigscreen is ready and waydroid has an android tv build, I’ll probably replace my nvidia shield.
bc there are a lot of android tv apps that are fantastic that don’t have ready alternatives on Linux for htpc usage. Clipious comes to mind, for instance. Having android tv apps available through Waydroid bridges the gap in functionality until native alternatives can replace them.
Do you have any more information on the waydroid android tv build? Very interested in that.
Currently someone has a an unofficial build. As far as I can tell, there are no plans to implement this or something similar upstream. https://github.com/supechicken/waydroid-androidtv-build
My experience with kodi is that it’s over complicated, and not as robust as jellyfin. I would constantly nav into the wrong menu and the ui is clunky
This is probably what I’ll end up doing, but then all the movies / tv / audio menus in kodi are just wasted space
Can people get Bigscreen anymore?
Kodi is so close to being absolutely perfect
Bigscreen is a new project to my understanding, I would like it to be a thing cause it would fill a nice niche for me that I’m overblowing with Kodi. Kodi is really nice but it feels a little laggy for my system. Maybe I need to tune it for my system.
change you skin… seriously. there’s some really sleek and light skins out there. changes night and day
edit - i use a fairly modified arctic fuse skin. The onyl thing that loads slow… is my 2k iptv channels…
My experience so far
Kodi (LibreELEC) was running rough on an old i5 4160 or something, when installed on an SD card. It also runs a little sluggish when installed on a Chromebook.
But I went back to that first PC with a real SSD and now kodi is running fantastic. On a fedora kinoite install
And paired with some commands for KDE Connect, and I’m pretty satisfied so far. It’s been about four days with it.
Wish I could replace Android on my Nebulas Mars II Pro by Plasma Bigscreen…
I used Kodi, then LibreELEC then now “just” VLC (booting to it via https://f-droid.org/en/packages/news.androidtv.launchonboot/ rather than home screen) as my content is on my home server relying on DLNA. So… I’m familiar with LibreELEC but isn’t it a Linux distribution? Can it be installed on the device itself (not using HDMI) and if so, how?
I’ve tried this on several different devices over the past year and all I can say is it’s not ready. It feels like alpha software, with many buttons and menus nonfunctional and frequent issues with windows disappearing and compositor crashing. Tried on Xorg and Wayland, as well as builds on ARM and x86
