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Fun horror story I learned recently, so are many, many, many of the things that share their internals, commonly, tablets. good luck figuring out whether this specific 4gb ram tablet has 64 bit, aka the majority of em either dont. Some are even using 64 bit processor with 32bit android build, so even if the processor cna handle it, no 64bit applications for you

I wonder if you could eventually get it built into Bazzite

The thing is without this, if you somehow exit steam, you are toast and need to plug a keyboard or access via ssh. Having a DE with controller support like this would indeed rock, as I stop depending on steam for launching things.

It's not that. Or at least you have to reboot into it.

...or can you just load a desktop environment without rebooting... Keeping your apps open...?

It's using plasma-nano session, which is a minimal Plasma session, and adding a launcher and settings app from what I can see.

You can run it in a regular window if you install the dependencies and use kde-builder to compile it and run. See the Dev docs at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen/

If you do decide to install all the kde-builder stuff, I'd suggest you use a distrobox container to make it easy to remove the many, many packages that it will install in order to set up the build environment

As others have mentioned, the websites tend to be limited both by resolution and functionality.

My TV supports CEC(most do these days) which will pass the remote input onto the devices connected to it, like a computer. Which means with Plasma Big Picture I can navigate with my remote, and any app that supports navigation with simple arrow key input would work great.

Unfortunately, the streaming websites, last time I tried, absolutely suck at that and assume you are navigating with a mouse.

Many streaming service websites limit browser streaming to 720p.

That only would launch them and probably won’t support remotes properly.