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Looking for a desktop environment for my media pc (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Bluefruit@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I control my media pc running Popos with a remote mouse/keyboard combo I found on Amazon and while this works pretty good, I would like a more "big picture mode" like experience that works well with using a remote.

I know theres some distros out there that are geared specifically for a media pc but I don't wanna reinstall my system. My internet is painfully slow at times and drops out frequently (yay for rural America) so even doing system updates can take a long time or just time out. I'd rather not babysit my pc to get everything working again how i want it so if I could find just a desktop environment to use that would be great. If not, such is life.

So far, Plasma bigscreen looked the most promising: https://plasma-bigscreen.org/ but any recommendations would be helpful. I've tried looking some up myself but searching the web has become pretty useless for something more niche or specific like this and I figure the good people on here would have better advice anyways.

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[–] Bluefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I have looked at kodi briefly, not sure if its exactly what I'm looking for but could be a viable option. Have heard a lot of good things about it of course. Appreciate the suggestion!

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Running kodi on a cage session sounds like a nice idea. Cage’s whole purpose is to run 1 app maximized.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a interesting idea. I have always just run it from the command line (it can run directly on the display)

Does Kodi have Wayland support?

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't know you could run kodi straight from the tty, sounds cool. And yes, kodi has Wayland support.