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What do you use with Waydroid? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 13 hours ago by dimjim@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
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I've recently distro hopped to Bazzite, and saw that it comes preloaded with Waydroid. I'm curious what you fine folk find useful to run that doesn't already have a Linux native version.

The only one I can currently think I'd use would be Symfonium.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Do you have a TV in the same room as your PC? Or maybe have you connected it to your Living Room?

I've setup a Android TV image, installed Jellyfin and SmartTube.
Paired with a cheap bluetooth remote, it makes a pretty sweet media consumption setup for the couch.

Now obviously, you don't need Waydroid for this at all, you could use native applications but

  • The native Jellyfin app for Linux is just a wrapper around the web UI, so you need a mouse to use it, making it annoying to interact with from the couch
  • You can use Kodi with Jellyfin plugins, but the default Kodi skin sucks so you'll find yourself taking a loooot of time configuring a third-party skin before you're happy with the UI
  • You can get browser extensions that trick YouTube into loading their TV interface, but the stock YouTube TV UI sucks compared to SmartTube

So yeah in the end I've found this setup to be my favorite "10-foot UI" for media consumption yet.
You turn your desktop into an Android TV box except it's the fastest you ever used and it has 0 bloat.
Only thing it won't do is full quality streaming from Netflix or other streaming services because DRM, but I don't really care about that.

[–] dimjim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 minutes ago

This is cool as fuck! I wish I had gotten into Linux sooner, I might have been able to use this setup lol

[–] darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

That is a really good use case.