I caved to black Friday promotions and ordered myself a fan less MSI Cubi N ADL S with N100, 4GB ram, 128 GB m.2 SSD and a Rii F8 remote.
To run as “smart TV”, mainly jellyfin, dvb-t2 antenna, YouTube, local public channel streaming from their websites.
Which is the hottest HTPC distro for this right now in your opinion?
It needs to be easy to use for non-techie and super stable and reliable, rather than fancy or brand new and hype.
To replace my current “attach the steamdeck to TV when needed” setup (so I can play on it while something is being watched). And this was experienced as not easy enough for non-techies?
I did the same project about a year ago. I started with LibreElec, but there were a lot of weird bugs and quirks, and I was at the point where it was crashing 3 or 4 times a day. Whenever I went to get help on their forums it seemed like every thread of theirs was closed with no resolution due to piracy in the logs.
After that I installed PopOS and use Kodi that way and its been really solid.
Libreelec seems super Kodi focused and nothing else. While I’m very unsure if I would get the local TV streaming websites working in that
If you need a web browser you definitely do not want LibreElec