Excellent. The umbrella of KDE is home to a bunch of my favorite applications. Kdenlive, Krita, Digikam. I’ve been hotly anticipating the day I get a phone running Plasma Mobile
This may be better eventually than Plasma Mobile for what I imagined as an ideal gaming frontend that isn’t just Steam Big Picture
Maybe someday Waydroid and Android Translation Layer will make Linux as a HTPC+gaming great
I’m incredibly hyped for this!
Never heard of this. So glad there is an alternative to android TV and Roku. Going to give it a shot.
Not currently available to download according to the official page:
“As of right now, Plasma Bigscreen isn’t available for public use yet. This is due to not being developed for so long. The project has been revived, but it might take a while until it becomes stable and is available for public use.”
That said, if this could run on top of the standard linux OS on my MiniPC (like Steam Big Picture), then I’d give it a go!
Arch (and derivative) systems can install it through the AUR, but I do not know any distribution that offers it through their normal distribution channels (packages sources) already.
Of course nixpkgs has it. It was added a few years ago, I can’t vouch for if it is up to date or still working.
Arch (and derivative) systems can install it through the AUR
Once installed, does it run as an application? I’m using Aurora, but it has DistroBox, and I’m almost certain that I’m able to get Arch programs installed through it.
itll be faster than android tv, no gplaysvc taking all resources
That’s exciting. It looks very clean, but until it has the tv remote support aspect I think it’ll wait
Gotta check if my GPU even supports CEC.
Does anyone know if there are any plans to port this to raspberry pi?
Right now it’s not packaged up for easy use but KDE has supported Raspberry Pi’s for ages so I wouldn’t be surprised if you ran Plasma desktop, it’d be simple to build and install. I’d wait until they got it back onto the KDE release cadence with everything else though for simplicity
For anyone who wants to test this out, you can do as Devin did by installing Plasma Bigscreen on a Raspberry Pi using postmarketOS, though you would have to compile it yourself or pull from the nightly repos to get the latest changes.
