I caved to black Friday promotions and ordered myself a fan less MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100, 4GB ram, 128 GB m.2 SSD and a Rii F8 remote.
To run as “smart TV”, mainly jellyfin, dvb-t2 antenna, YouTube, local public channel streaming from their websites.
Which is the hottest HTPC distro for this right now in your opinion?
It needs to be easy to use for non-techie and super stable and reliable, rather than fancy or brand new and hype.
To replace my current “attach the steamdeck to TV when needed” setup (so I can play on it while something is being watched). And this was experienced as not easy enough for non-techies?
I’ve been using casaOS and it worked kinda fine. not sure if the best, but it worked. https://youtu.be/qn192xxjmUA
You mean as server? I’m looking for os on TV box, server is already running dietpi with jellyfin and works rather well
just wanted to update, my casaos setup broke after a while and I started from scratch using dockge as a browser interface for deploying docker stuff + filemanager and i like it a lot more. that’s on debían btw.
I don’t know about hottest, but on my little HTPC I’m running NixOS with KDE (mainly for KDE Connect, but it’s nice to have a DE of some sort when things crash/break).
I set up flex launcher to auto start and added menu options for Kodi, Firefox, and Steam.
I used to run LibreElec. It was mostly fine, but the Kodi YouTube plugin breaks just often enough that I wanted to have a web browser as backup. Also, I eventually wanted to play/stream games to it.
Flex luncher is also the best I found so far. Only used it with openbox, so I was lacking the kdeconnect part, which sounds nice. I tried plasma-bigscreen, but that really didn’t agree with me. I’m wondering why there is so little choice in this segment, as it feels like htpcs are a thing much longer than self hosting