I tried for hours to get this working and could not. Steam big picture can actually be used as a launcher if you use boilr to import flatpaks. Might be worth it to try steamOS as an HTPC.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you can just launch Steam big picture directly.

Maybe I should start selling little orange pis with with plasma big screen set up ready to go, also with Netflix etc ready

[–] Lydia_K@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I assume you are using an orange pi successfully? Which version exactly?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Orange Pi 3b with dietpi.

I've had Big screen work before in Raspberry Pi 4 (even made a meme about back when I was tinkering around with different OS's on it to see potential uses for my rpi), but Orange Pis are cheaper and the hardware is more open source, so I'm curious if I would get better responsiveness out of it. Plus the Orange Pi I have has 8gb too.

I like your Steam Big picture idea too.

Don't know, have been thinking of making something easy to use for awhile for some of my family members anyway. But has to be really easy since they're not the most tech literate (well may my mom and definitely dad. If he can use whatever I make, anyone can).

[–] Tsuroth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm trying big picture out on my 8th gen Intel mini PC with endeavouros and plasma and getting pretty bad performance. Probably missed something in configuration, but I'm just gonna try steamOS and see how that does.

Edit: Realizing now that the steamOS download link redirects to steam deck recovery image, still waiting on non steam deck image. I'm gonna try chimeraOS instead.