When comparing Roku OS vs Plasma Bigscreen, the Slant community recommends Plasma Bigscreen for most people. In the question“What is the best set-top box OS?” Plasma Bigscreen is ranked 5th while Roku OS is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Plasma Bigscreen is:
You can make any TV a smart TV with only a Raspberry Pi.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Sideload apps
You can sideload apps if you enable the developer mode.
Pro Runs on cheap hardware
You can make any TV a smart TV with only a Raspberry Pi.
Pro A free (as in freedom) alternative
To all the proprietary set top box operating systems.
Cons
Con Proprietary
The UI is proprietary software.
Con Useles if you live outside of the US
It is unavailable outside of the US.
Con Uses KDE applications
There are no Apps designed for the system, instead it modifies the way regular KDE applications are displayed.
Con GNU GPL
This License is much more restrictive than Androids Apache license, which will lead to less developers/interest.
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