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?

  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    I would just be curious about how to get started, aka having flex automatically started without login prompt. Haven’t used nix yet and somehow the initial hurdle feels kinda high :)

    • Kaigyo@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 hours ago

      For skipping the login prompt, I’m using the setting

      services.displayManager.autoLogin = {
  enable = true;
  user = "your-username";
};

      I would guess that works with most display managers.

      I think I just set flex-launcher to auto start in my KDE settings (not through nix).

      But yeah, the learning curve for nix is pretty steep, but it’s not too bad once you get past the kinda weird syntax. I followed https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/ + the official installation docs for my install. It’ll definitely take some trial and error when writing your config, but the nice thing is you can make all kinds of mistakes without breaking your system.