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I have an AMD APU Linux PC hooked to my TV with a Logitech K400. Its a bit more fiddly than a throw away android based TV stick thing but you have complete free

I have an AMD APU Linux PC hooked to my TV with a Logitech K400. Its a bit more fiddly than a throw away android based TV stick thing but you have complete freedom and control.

m_t 1y ago
Would you care to share the specs? Any issue for streaming DRM content like netflix, or decoding high nitrate h265? Thank you !
- NewJazz 1y ago
  An asrock deskmini would probably do. Anything zen2 or newer I'd be fine with personally.
- MisterTea 1y ago
  Ryzen 5 4600G on an ITX board with 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe and hard-wired gigabit. It's hooked to a ~40 inch Sony 1080p dumb TV via HDMI. I don't use fancy GUI media centers or anything, just a standard Debian XFCE desktop scaled up. Netflix and Hulu work just fine in Chrome and Firefox. No idea about 2k+ performance due to 1080p limit. TV for me is mostly background noise so media quality is of no concern to me. My only gripe is once in a rare while the audio goes to shit and continually crackles but reboot and its fixed.
bobson381 1y ago
yep, k400 and a dell optiplex mini running debian with plasma. can stream, pull up youtube, cast to spotify, whatever. it rocks.
const_cast 1y ago
I watch everything on my web browser with a fancy OLED monitor. The problem is that many services won't give you even HD, let alone UHD. I'm stuck at 480p for renting movies on YouTube. Android TV sticks scare me, but the Apple TV seems... okay.
- girvo 1y ago
  DRM becoming so entrenched in the web still makes me sad beyond measure
- hhh 1y ago
  I use an Apple TV w/ the Infuse app for Jellyfin. I pay for premium for it, and can watch media from my pi5 running Jellyfin/Sonarr etc.
  - jnaina 1y ago
    Infuse is awesome. I use it with Plex/Sonarr, both on the Apple TV and the AVP.
KetoManx64 1y ago
Try KDE-Connect, you can send mouse in-out, change volume, open links, etc.
heavyset_go 1y ago
Streaming platforms won't serve Linux desktops high resolution content, unfortunately. Been the case for like a decade
- olyjohn 1y ago
  Thats what The Pirate Bay is for.
  - paradox460 1y ago
    Linux still doesn't have much of an answer for Dolby Vision, regardless of how you acquire content.
nfriedly 1y ago
Yeah, I have a similar setup. I recently tried out an Apple TV - I went back to the PC the same day.

I have an AMD APU Linux PC hooked to my TV with a Logitech K400. Its a bit more fiddly than a throw away android based TV stick thing but you have complete freedom and control.

m_t 1y ago

Would you care to share the specs? Any issue for streaming DRM content like netflix, or decoding high nitrate h265? Thank you !

NewJazz 1y ago
An asrock deskmini would probably do. Anything zen2 or newer I'd be fine with personally.
MisterTea 1y ago
Ryzen 5 4600G on an ITX board with 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe and hard-wired gigabit. It's hooked to a ~40 inch Sony 1080p dumb TV via HDMI. I don't use fancy GUI media centers or anything, just a standard Debian XFCE desktop scaled up. Netflix and Hulu work just fine in Chrome and Firefox. No idea about 2k+ performance due to 1080p limit. TV for me is mostly background noise so media quality is of no concern to me. My only gripe is once in a rare while the audio goes to shit and continually crackles but reboot and its fixed.

bobson381 1y ago

yep, k400 and a dell optiplex mini running debian with plasma. can stream, pull up youtube, cast to spotify, whatever. it rocks.

const_cast 1y ago

I watch everything on my web browser with a fancy OLED monitor. The problem is that many services won't give you even HD, let alone UHD. I'm stuck at 480p for renting movies on YouTube. Android TV sticks scare me, but the Apple TV seems... okay.

girvo 1y ago
DRM becoming so entrenched in the web still makes me sad beyond measure
hhh 1y ago
I use an Apple TV w/ the Infuse app for Jellyfin. I pay for premium for it, and can watch media from my pi5 running Jellyfin/Sonarr etc.
- jnaina 1y ago
  Infuse is awesome. I use it with Plex/Sonarr, both on the Apple TV and the AVP.

KetoManx64 1y ago

Try KDE-Connect, you can send mouse in-out, change volume, open links, etc.

heavyset_go 1y ago

Streaming platforms won't serve Linux desktops high resolution content, unfortunately. Been the case for like a decade

olyjohn 1y ago
Thats what The Pirate Bay is for.
- paradox460 1y ago
  Linux still doesn't have much of an answer for Dolby Vision, regardless of how you acquire content.

nfriedly 1y ago

Yeah, I have a similar setup. I recently tried out an Apple TV - I went back to the PC the same day.