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• MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I always wanted something like SteamOS for media. basically an opensource AndroidTV. is there nothing like this?

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Librelec.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. Librelec is just kodi. I’m looking for something that can start arbitrary applications behind an overlay like SteamOS or AndroidTV. I don’t want to use the buggy Plex or Jellyfin plugin for Kodi.

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      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just to stave off anyone else coming in and going “ackshuallee”… it’s true that you could technically do that with libreELEC. It’d be a fool’s errand of using SSH to get to the terminal and install all the programs and dependencies, and you’d still need some way to do arbitrary terminal commands from the kodi menu (I think there are plugins for that and for launching arbitrary programs though).

        I played around with that myself for a few hours and gave up.

        I’d love something actually good, but the closest you’ll get probably is running Kodi or whatever media frontend you want on top of a stripped down “normal” OS, with a separate frontend for games/programs like HyperSpin. Find a way to launch one from the other and you’d be set.

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      • richmondez@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Arbitrary applications isn’t a TVOS like the original poster asked for, it’s a general purpose OS.

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