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Anybody on here actually using BigScreen? I tried it at the start of the year and it seemed promising but not quite ready to replace Android on my Pi 5
I have it on a mini PC (KDE Neon) and I use it every now and then to update it and see how development is going. I bought a Skip 1s remote and FLIRC. Works pretty well, but I am still using my Android TV until a proper IPTV replacement with remote control support is available.
It's very close to being usable. I'm really hoping this new Bigscreen UI helps get more apps on board.
I use it. Start of the year it was still developer mode only I think and very buggy, now it's not anymore. Works pretty well on the minipc attached to the TV. I use it to avoid using Android or all that bullshit ads and tracking on new "smart" TV's. Tho you can just use plasma big screen together with google enabled waydroid to still get commercial android apps on your TV.
Plasma big screen goes together quite nicely with Steam big screen mode. The installed games show in their own category on the main Homescreen... Then I also have jellyfin, feishin, a web app link to seerr, vacuumtube. Works very well with game controllers but also the crossover kind (I use a rii f8, features a few IR buttons for TV itself)
My biggest complaint about plasma big screen is that web apps default to I don't remember the name of the niche browser, while i would prefer them to just launch in Firefox fullscreen and in general the web apps are annoying to create and have no wiggle room (no custom icons for example).
It's also a bit weird that you can't "hide" certain apps while in big screen mode. In the category (all) "applications" there's stuff like KDE partition manager showing... Convenient to have, but not while I'm in TV watching mode.
I do think they're still very actively developing so I'm hoping for much more improvements in the next months/years!