With today's KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I've been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month's Plasma 6.7 release.

Plasma Big Screen is the large UI format for the Plasma desktop with a convenient experience for those using it as a living room PC. And it's just in time for the upcoming Steam Machine from Valve.

Applications launch full-screen mode and it's a very straight-forward workflow.

The Plasma Big Screen UI itself was very fluid and no performance issues or rendering problems when testing on an AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" system.

The KDE settings and other elements adapt well for the big screen UI.

For my testing I was using a KDE Neon Unstable Edition build. At first upon installing the current media the desktop was just crashing at start when hitting the Welcome Center. Once switching to a VT and upgrading all packages and rebooting, it was a seamless experience after that initial trouble.

It was very easy using the KDE Plasma Big Screen without any prior usage.

Overall I was satisfied with the initial experience of using the Big Screen interface on Plasma 6.7 Beta.

Those wanting to try the KDE Neon unstable ISOs can find them at Plasma-BigScreen.org .