It downloads the channel you selected as an m3u8 playlist and serves it over http. Most iptv providers only allow a single connection per subscription, the re-streaming allows you to have friends and other devices watch the same channel you’re watching.

Biggest news for linux gaming in a while

Thanks. For the mpv params, that’s a bug, I’ll be looking into this.

Relatives using proprietary/borderline mslware/slow iptv apps. I wanted them to use something better

Nvidia on Linux is improving fast these days

doesn’t powertop already do this?

There’s LocalSend that already exists

Could be a decent idea

It used to be tauri, but due to a bug in tauri that lasted more than a year, I had to switch to electron. I’ve been thinking of switching back, but I’ve got other priorities

doesn’t that exist already? I could swear I saw at least 2 on flathub

Sounds good, I’ll consider it heavily as audio/gtk4 would be interesting

Would you take iced/cosmic or tauri? Or it really has to be a GTK4?

I agree, but I think something is already in the works, I’ll check and probably make something practical to sync the two. It’s not really a new app that’s needed but a feature integrated into freetube/newpipe

Ublue is indeed fantastic tech, I don’t deny that. For my own purposes, I would have to spend too much time curating my own custom OS if I used it, so I prefer Kalpa.

Snapshots are a lot more flexible. You can make any modifications to your system without issue. Layering packages on image based distros is slow and annoying, to the point UBlue OS was born out of that annoyance.

Speed of package managers did matter in my original search, because my workflow was to open my pc, update everything, reboot, start working. But with Kalpa snapshots, my updates are started in the background then silently and promptly applied on next reboot, I don’t even have to think about it. It’s like offline updates but without the wait.

This is the most annoying thing about TW. You gotta do “zypper dup --no-recommends”

You are lost, you use ventoy on a seperate usb. Then you can install whatever distro on your portable ssd. You can install multiple as long as your partition things well. It’s not that difficult. You could have asked here instead of going on a rollercoaster of weird self-imposed problems.

Google is filled with blogspam nowadays. You should try any distro that has been released recently or rolling. I would recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed, it’s quite easy to use. Try KDE while you’re at it.

Did you really judge the current state of linux by using a 2 year old distro?

I use a very very minimal OpenSuse Tumbleweed KDE but I start the DE manually; startplasma-wayland or startx