Archived Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming (gamingonlinux.com)
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Archived Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming (gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Kookus 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Nice. Mine's driving the bigscreen in the living room, and I'm trying to make it easy enough that everyone else can use it without much trouble -- sort of like it's supposed to be out of the box.
The guy mentioned that he couldn't get Netflix working... I just registered a chrome app and then modified the command to go full-screen and point to Netflix. Because it uses my saved credentials, this works like a champ. This is basically the same way I had to set it up in Kodi because the Netflix "launcher" is busted due ot lack of maintenance. The only down-side is that there's no way to get out of the app other than to alt-f4 it, but you can map that to the controller, so no big deal.
For everything else (Pandora, local video/audio streaming via nfs, etc.), I just registered a launcher for Kodi. Kodi occasionally does weird stuff when it goes full-screen video; I think it is stealing focus from the Steam overlay. But I have a BT keyboard hidden away for those little hiccups.
[–] ChillyHellion [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The eternal struggle of the shared media PC :P I'm with you 100%