With the recent GN video I’d been wondering about turning an old mini PC from eBay into a little Linux TV box for streaming. I’d need access to Android apps (I guess through Waydroid).

After a brief look, it seems that the two options are some form of LibreElec system running Kodi or Arch running Plasma Big Screen. Any thoughts / advice? And if I went for Big Screen, does anyone know of any distros that ship with it or will I have to spin it up myself on Arch?

  • Blue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 hours ago

    I haven’t found anything better than just Linux Mint on a mini PC and Logitech k400 with autostarting browser with bookmarks to streaming sites.

    I wish there was a FOSS android distro for htpc/streaming boxes but that would probably just be blocked by Google and the rest of the streaming giants

      • paper_moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        Yarrr this was 1 of many reasons why I canceled Netlfix. At some point I was watching a movie that had a scene where the main character was kayaking at night and ran into some trouble. Due to their compression, (not only the 720 resolution), I literally couldn’t see what was happening in scene, it was just a bunch of giant black and grey blocks moving around the screen. I decided right then I was done paying for this shit.

        At that point I’m paying for content that’s worse quality then when people used to cam new releases in theaters back in early 2000’s