Streaming platforms won't serve Linux desktops high resolution content, unfortunately. Been the case for like a decade

Thats what The Pirate Bay is for.

Linux still doesn't have much of an answer for Dolby Vision, regardless of how you acquire content.

I watch everything on my web browser with a fancy OLED monitor. The problem is that many services won't give you even HD, let alone UHD. I'm stuck at 480p for renting movies on YouTube.

Android TV sticks scare me, but the Apple TV seems... okay.

DRM becoming so entrenched in the web still makes me sad beyond measure

I use an Apple TV w/ the Infuse app for Jellyfin. I pay for premium for it, and can watch media from my pi5 running Jellyfin/Sonarr etc.

Infuse is awesome. I use it with Plex/Sonarr, both on the Apple TV and the AVP.

Would you care to share the specs?

Any issue for streaming DRM content like netflix, or decoding high nitrate h265?

Thank you !

Ryzen 5 4600G on an ITX board with 16GB RAM, 512GB NVMe and hard-wired gigabit. It's hooked to a ~40 inch Sony 1080p dumb TV via HDMI.

I don't use fancy GUI media centers or anything, just a standard Debian XFCE desktop scaled up. Netflix and Hulu work just fine in Chrome and Firefox. No idea about 2k+ performance due to 1080p limit. TV for me is mostly background noise so media quality is of no concern to me.

My only gripe is once in a rare while the audio goes to shit and continually crackles but reboot and its fixed.

An asrock deskmini would probably do. Anything zen2 or newer I'd be fine with personally.

Yeah, I have a similar setup. I recently tried out an Apple TV - I went back to the PC the same day.

Try KDE-Connect, you can send mouse in-out, change volume, open links, etc.

yep, k400 and a dell optiplex mini running debian with plasma. can stream, pull up youtube, cast to spotify, whatever. it rocks.