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A Samsung The Frame jumping between its stock home screen and a custom launcher in about a second, with big tiles for Apple TV, a Switch, a Steam Machine and the TV settings and nothing else, is a better advert for Tizen than anything Samsung has put on stage. Quinn Nelson of Snazzy Labs built it with Claude, more or less describing what he wanted and letting the AI write it, and flicking through the art looks quick too.
He's not the only one. CleanYourTV does a similar job on Android TV and Google TV devices, and Ryan Doyle stripped the ad and tracking packages off a TCL set, put in another launcher and sped up the animations. The pattern across all of them is the same: the hardware was never why these TVs feel sluggish. The recommendation rows, ad tiles and background services are.
That said, I wouldn't copy any of this onto a TV you depend on. The German site that picked up the video said the same and I agree with them: you may lose warranty, and pulling a random launcher off GitHub onto a device that sits on your network all day is how people end up with malware they never notice. Vibe-coded also means nobody reviewed it.
The practical version for most people is boring. Plug in an external streamer, set the TV to boot to that HDMI input, and never see the TV's own home screen again. You get the speed and skip a lot of the recommendation and tracking stuff as well. A custom launcher is a fun project for someone who knows exactly what they're installing.
He's not the only one. CleanYourTV does a similar job on Android TV and Google TV devices, and Ryan Doyle stripped the ad and tracking packages off a TCL set, put in another launcher and sped up the animations. The pattern across all of them is the same: the hardware was never why these TVs feel sluggish. The recommendation rows, ad tiles and background services are.
That said, I wouldn't copy any of this onto a TV you depend on. The German site that picked up the video said the same and I agree with them: you may lose warranty, and pulling a random launcher off GitHub onto a device that sits on your network all day is how people end up with malware they never notice. Vibe-coded also means nobody reviewed it.
The practical version for most people is boring. Plug in an external streamer, set the TV to boot to that HDMI input, and never see the TV's own home screen again. You get the speed and skip a lot of the recommendation and tracking stuff as well. A custom launcher is a fun project for someone who knows exactly what they're installing.
