I use Q4OS as it is super light but Debian based. Install KDEConnect and I run a dumb large TV as my TV and control it from my phone. If younwa5ch YT, run Freetube.
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I've been using Nobara. If you are looking for an open system to tinker with, it is a great choice. It runs with pretty bleeding edge packages though.
Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.
Similar here.
MythTv + Firefox + VLC - all on Arch
Used to be easier when Myth was in the main repos, now I have to compile from AUR, but it's still ok
What do you record with mythTV?
TV programs...
Via online websites or via TV capture card?
Ah, I see what you're asking now.
I have a Hauppauge TV dual-tuner card for terrestrial TV.
Dual tuner so we can watch one thing whilst recording something else, or record 2 things at once.
Myth picks up the card and also uses that for the schedule guide, so we can just set up the scheduler with a TV series or some key-words and leave it to it.
We've not watched live TV for ages and it's weird sitting through adverts now when we're at friends / family
We also have GBs of films and music on the same machine, so it's our central AV device. The Audio is sync'd off to other devices from here rather than having a 2nd NAS for it.
I had a 2nd MythTv frontend on another box in another room for a while and that worked well too.
I've not had a TV for like 10 years, just using youtube and torrents, but this seems interesting for an idea... I wonder where my aerial connection port is...
Used cachyos for the last couple months, its a graphical installer, automatic everything, and when it loads you get a startup menu that you can click install gaming packages on to get anything youd download for gaming, its supposdely the only distro actually optimized for gaming and detects your hardware automatically to grab everything.
Off the install and one click installing those packages everything on my steam account (after checking proton compatibility cachyos setting) worked fine for me. Blender also works well, but in that case I needed to grab a driver for amd.
Bazzite made me nervous, I like being able to clixk through the install seeing what im doing. I reinstalled windows right before and did dualboot first, before removing windows and sticking with just cachyos. Cachyos was about 10x easier to install than windows and 1000000x faster, like it straight up took 2 minutes maybe while windows takes 2 hours, I was shocked that it was actually done.
I also really like gparted, originally with the dual boot I had to manually partition the drive for the os and the boot paritition, took a couple minutes to figure our and its very convenient to be able to mess with your ssd easily just by plugging in a usb and booting into the live os from there. Idk if any other installers do that, if anyone knows please let me know, like the usb boots into kde plasma and you can kind of test out the ui while clicking through the gui installer.
I tried using bazzite as a media PC and gave up after a couple of days, this isn't even remotely something I want in my household.
try it on fast hardware and make up your own mind. good luck!
p.s.: plasma bigscreen isn't available for public use and kodi and its derivatives should be tossed in the deepest volcanoes we got.
None. Move your living room to the forest and never look back. Be free.
Not free, hard to get food and necessities, but yeah, some days I wish it was that easy, though I'd be hella bored.
But there's no memes out there!?
The memes are the friends we made along the way :)
I got openSUSE Leap. It's stable and reliable. My complaint is that I needed to go thru all the hoops to get all the media codecs I need to play what I want.
Glad you like it, not sure it's a fit for my lazy living room machine though.
Honestly, I picked it because I was lazy. It's such a low maintainance machine. As for the codec, the flatpak version of VLC does it.
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