Home theater PC options

User interfaces

• Wikipedia: 10-foot user interface
• Mouseless
  • Fork of TenFootGnome
  • Last commit 2025-04
• TenFootGnome
  • 10-foot interface for gnome based Linux
  • Last release 2022
• Flex launcher
  • A customizable HTPC application launcher and front-end interface
  • Last release 2024-11

KDE plasma bigscreen

• Website
  • Based on Wayland
  • Mycroft integrated
  • Plasma Bigscreen Gitlab
    • Last release 2025-01
  • Apps
  • Couldn't get sound over HDMI working :/

Install

Distributions offering Plasma Bigscreen:

• Debian package
• ManjaroARM
  • Plasma Bigscreen first boot wizard bails on RPi 4
• PostmarketOS: Mostly for smartphones

HTPC operating systems

• SteamOS
• Stremio
  • Successor of PopcornTime
  • GitHub
• LineageOS 20 Android TV (Android 13) for Raspberry Pi 4

Kodi based

• LibreElec
• OSMC
  • OSMC currently supports the Raspberry Pi, Vero, and Apple TV
• CoreElec
  • Only for Amlogic hardware

Deprecated:

• OpenElec

Deprecated

• Ubuntu TV
• LinHES
  • Linux Home Entertainment System
  • Baed on MythTV
• Geexbox