The only time I've been able to use PVR/IPTV is with MX Linux xfce DE. For my other Linux I can sometimes build the packages and get it working (Ubuntu gnome, Fedora gnome, mx Linux KDE)

I'm just trying to get plutotv PVR to work without messing around with building and finding different addon dependencies.

I see posts about the issue... I don't understand why it's like this though? How come installing Kodi seems to have different results?

Seems like a basic thing...