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Not exactly self-hosted but I know many jellyfinners here would cherish this as well.

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[-] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 89 points 2 weeks ago

That's looks much better.

I tried the older version for my htpc and didn't like it.

I would love to see this keep improving.

Is this basically a DE? Could you run steam and full on gaming PC off this?

[-] lilith267 47 points 2 weeks ago

Baeically its a somewhat stripped down version of plasma ment to be used with a controller or remote, but it is only a DE, so applications that arent controller friendly are going to stay that way.

Setting steam to launch big picture by default tho would basically turn any powerful pc you have into a steam console (steam big picture) with an extra home screen (plasma bigscreen) that shows all your other applications

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

I wonder if you could eventually get it built into Bazzite

[-] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 2 weeks ago

The thing is without this, if you somehow exit steam, you are toast and need to plug a keyboard or access via ssh. Having a DE with controller support like this would indeed rock, as I stop depending on steam for launching things.

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

It's an alternative shell for Plasma, so theoretically you should be able to do anything in it that you can do in Plasma.

On my Arch box it installed a minimal set of Plasma utilities to support it, which means my setup is still very limited (and I can't turn off screen lock!), but I haven't tried if it would change if offered a full Plasma install.

I can most certainly launch Steam, Kodi, Jellyfin etc.

[-] IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

What does DE mean in this context?

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Desktop environment

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's a Linux concept. Basically, imagine you could have a Windows 11 PC with the Windows XP GUI or with the macOS GUI. In Linux, these kinds of different GUIs are just desktop environments, which you can install as you see fit.
Conversely, you can also have an OS without a desktop environment, which is basically what's used on Linux server PCs.

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