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Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma-based shell (desktop environment) for TVs and other large displays. It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers.
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How many of you knew about this project?
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Plasma Bigscreen is a Plasma-based shell (desktop environment) for TVs and other large displays. It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers.
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I disagree. Even if it was “perfectly good” as you say, there is still no remote-centric interface, which is what this project purports to provide: “It is designed to be used with arrow navigation using remotes or controllers”.
TV devices exist for a reason. The reason being they are extremely energy efficient. Consuming <10 watts, while your 5090 gaming PC will be using 50+ watts the whole time.
Further, PCs don’t support turning on with a remote/controller or HDMI-CEC (turning on the TV when powered on).
I’m certainly not arguing against its’ existence but there are too many problems with this usecase that it cannot solve for a variety of reasons outside of its’ control and it would be a disservice to advertise this software without also making users aware of it’s many shortcomings.