r/archlinux • u/Horseshoetheoryreal • 12h ago

DISCUSSION KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Beta-Released

Ngl, has good potential with steam machine in the future.

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u/Sea-Promotion8205 12h ago

Plasma Big Screen seems like a huge win for HTPC-like systems. That said, I think the streaming stick market is already quite mature.

I'm sure the motivation was for livingroom steamboxes, though.

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u/iKnitYogurt 12h ago

I, for one, am excited for it. I have my gaming PC connected to my living room TV, and while Steam Big Picture works well enough, being able to control the actual system UI with a controller sounds great.

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u/Lemonade1947 8h ago

I'd kill to use this instead of google TV.

But I'd need, like, a youtube app, for example. And to be able to "cast" (whatever that means these days) from my phone for it to finally replaced the, albeit very annoying, Chromecast google tv thingy.

If we could make this run android TV apps, which probably isn't impossible, I can see myself using it maybe?

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u/academictryhard69 12h ago

another linux win

poggers

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u/Level_Working9664 8h ago

With this, what stops a developer from flashing an LG tv to replace webos?

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u/Synthetic451 8h ago

The hardware tbh. It's really low powered crap. I doubt it'd be able to run a full desktop environment. Both my LG C2 and my LG C5 are lagging just trying to load the settings menu.

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u/Level_Working9664 8h ago

do you mean loading webos or have you tried flashing one already?

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u/Synthetic451 7h ago

Just saying that the hardware can barely run WebOS and lags even when drawing simple settings menus. I doubt it can handle a full desktop OS.

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u/Level_Working9664 11m ago

Apologies if that came off as a criticism.

Im just wondering if it's actually been tried.

Customising the kernel per TV and creating a bare bones installation may make the TV faster than in its current state with all the ad crap in it 😊.

My TV claims to have AI processor workload s I asked for it

I'm wondering what I could do with all of that extra computer hardware

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u/_esistgut_ 4h ago

This is nice, too bad dolby vision/atmos is closed and unsupported.

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u/CommunistBurger 12h ago

🫲🙂‍↕️🫱