Switch and Click takes Linux to the living-room couch

Plasma Bigscreen gets a controller-driven trial, complete with Disney+ scaling snags and questions about ordinary TV remotes.

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This Free App Singlehandedly Fixes Modern TV

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Can a Linux PC feel comfortable enough to replace a streaming box? Switch and Click puts that question through a decidedly practical test in "This Free App Singlehandedly Fixes Modern TV": installing Plasma Bigscreen, connecting a gamepad and trying to make Disney+ behave.

The free KDE interface supplies a big-screen home menu, but the interesting part is the friction around it. Installation means using the terminal; a Disney+ web app needs adjustments to its full-screen display and scaling. Bluetooth setup sends the presenter back into desktop settings, while HDMI remote-control support runs into hardware and firmware limitations. By the end, though, she considers it a viable streaming-box replacement. The video includes a sponsored segment for motorized blinds.

It was the most watched of eight new uploads, reaching roughly 775,000 views. Viewers are discussing the parts that matter once other people share the couch: straightforward remote navigation, a fuller step-by-step guide and whether desktop streaming can deliver the picture quality they want. Several raise resolution restrictions, rather than treating a working interface as the whole solution.

The living-room theme continues in "6 TV Setup Upgrades That ACTUALLY Matter", a sponsored guide drawing on a year of testing TVs, soundbars and receivers. It currently has the strongest daily momentum, followed by the Plasma experiment. Just outside the week's uploads, the rechargeable-battery tests are also drawing a substantial audience.

Switch and Click added about 20,000 subscribers over the week, and daily views are comfortably above their usual level. Elsewhere among similarly sized tech channels, Insert Richie and Parker Burton had substantial viewing weeks, while Techmoan had a smaller one. Here, the broadening beyond keyboards is especially tangible: Linux on a phone, programming monitors and a television setup that needs to work from the sofa.

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The videos drawing views on Switch and Click right now

SteamOS Is A Mobile App Now?488,705 views · 2026-11-09 Adobe keeps getting Worse, so I Tried the Free Clone.264,309 views · 2026-11-07 I replaced my $1500 ultra wide monitor with programming monitors.72,527 views · 2026-11-10 6 TV Setup Upgrades That ACTUALLY Matter64,721 views · 2026-11-13 Australia Just Took on Big Tech and Social Media at Once.32,605 views · 2026-11-09 Why I'm Never Buying Regular Batteries Ever Again934,524 views

The numbers

Here is how Switch and Click's week looks in views and subscribers.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Parker Burton

9,065,471

Insert Richie

8,029,243

Switch and Click

5,216,057

Matty McTech

2,640,768

ETA PRIME

2,290,383

Tech Spurt

1,744,243

Brandon Butch

1,324,234

Paul's Hardware

1,147,923

Techmoan

840,050

subscribers

1,470,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

316,101,515

views per day

972,115

typical day: 684,890

first-day views of each video posted this week

This Free App Singlehandedly Fixes Mode…

553,509

SteamOS Is A Mobile App Now?

321,389

Adobe keeps getting Worse, so I Tried t…

128,745

I replaced my $1500 ultra wide monitor …

46,801

Australia Just Took on Big Tech and Soc…

22,374

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Paul's Hardware

1,560,000

Insert Richie

1,520,000

Matty McTech

1,480,000

Switch and Click

1,470,000

Techmoan

1,470,000

Brandon Butch

1,440,000

Parker Burton

1,440,000

ETA PRIME

1,400,000

Tech Spurt

1,400,000

As of November 14, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.