Cherry

Yeh, agree. But for a lot of people they are the easiest option after Amazon/google/apple etc

Not everyone is techy enough to have means to pull components together and configure, And then put up with semi reliable solutions. People need to acknowledge this rather than downvote. It’s weird.

plasma-bigscreen looks nice, would it go on a RPI 4? and are they spy-ey? they have google as a patron.

Not sure why you got downvoted. I use similar Mi boxes. I hate google but the tv has a throw away tv email. I would love to not have google involved.

I then have productivity launcher which i quite like. If i am wrong happy to be pointed in the right direction. generally use stremio/jelly/smartube

Also smart tube