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KDE's Plasma Bigscreen For TV's Still In Development (plasma-bigscreen.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by crankyrebel@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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How many of you knew about this project?

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Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma-based shell (desktop environment) for TVs and other large displays. It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

you can have a perfectly good experience using commercial streaming services through a browser (on x64, at least)

I disagree. Even if it was "perfectly good" as you say, there is still no remote-centric interface, which is what this project purports to provide: "It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers".

you can do a lot more things than just stream video when you have a computer hooked up to a TV. Games are an obvious choice

TV devices exist for a reason. The reason being they are extremely energy efficient. Consuming <10 watts, while your 5090 gaming PC will be using 50+ watts the whole time.

Further, PCs don't support turning on with a remote/controller or HDMI-CEC (turning on the TV when powered on).

I'm certainly not arguing against its' existence but there are too many problems with this usecase that it cannot solve for a variety of reasons outside of its' control and it would be a disservice to advertise this software without also making users aware of it's many shortcomings.