"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!

[–] Peter1986C 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

AFAIK it’s a desktop environment so using it via distrobox wouldn’t work, it has to be installed on a system level

[–] Peter1986C 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It is a DE, like regular KDE, GNOME etc. At your OS's login shell, you should be able to select it once installed. If it is the only desktop environment on that system, it will not even be needed to get selected as the appropriate session gets started when you login.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

That's cool! That would work for me!