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Distro/software for living room/TV PC? (self.linux_gaming)

submitted 1 month ago by captain_aggravated to c/[email protected]

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So for the past little while I've had a Pi 4 hooked up to my TV as a Kodi box running OSMC, which has been okay I guess. Having recently built a new PC, my old Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080 box is freed up, so I'm thinking of replacing that Pi with something that can also run Steam.

I'm completely at a loss for what system to run for a living room couch/TV experience. Kodi...could be better, OSMC doesn't have a desktop and won't launch just a normal web browser, it uses Kodi as its only UI and it's just not fully good enough.

I'm also not sure if Steam Big Picture Mode is capable of being a media center. Like, can it play movies from there? My experience with Steam's Big Picture Mode is it runs like microwaved shit anyway, feels as responsive as the average dogwood.

I want to be able to get to my collection of movies on my NAS, play Steam games, and do some web browser tasks like watch Youtube and that kind of thing. I just don't do the streaming services, I don't need Huflix or NetMax or whatever.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

What is lineage os Android TV? Couldn't find it anywhere on my search engine.

Also I don't know what people mean by "the wall that is nvidia on linux" I have been using my gtx 1660 on Linux and it just works. Since I use bazzite you can select your gpu model before downloading the iso file and it preinstalls nvidia proprietary drivers. I'm not sure what it's like on other distros but it seems fine.

In fact I also have an rx 6700xt but unfortunately I could not get a display output on Linux no matter what I tried. So for me nvidia has been better than amd on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Try opensuse. That's working great for my living room PC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

then you ain't got no problem, Jules.

the ATV builds are here: https://konstakang.com/devices/rpi4/