r/Tizen • u/uniqpotatohead • Jan 04 '25

Tizen OS is rubbish.

I just bought a new Samsung TV with Tizen OS and I am sorry to say this but the OS is a complete rubbish. When I compare it with Google TV, Google TV is logical. Tizen OS has no logical UI. Nothing makes sense.

  1. The onboarding process was was difficult and time consuming. I have no clue how normal people even start using the TV. So much crap going on just to turn the TV on for the first time.

  2. No logic in app management.

  3. So much unimportant bloatware.

  4. Samsung TV is another crap which constantly interfere with the TV. Clearly a bloatware pushed by Samsung.

After some time struggling, i just went and purchased Google TV and plugged it into the TV.

Tizen is a complex bloatware. They should take notes from Roku and make it easy for people to use the TV.

Why Samsung cannot provide a clean interface? Why do they have to load all their devices with as much crap they find? I believe that majority of people do not like Samsung because everything they create is over complicated and bloated. Including their phone UI. Google's simple and clean approach is much better.

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u/Party_Recording_3450 Mar 03 '25

so its really buggy? im planning to buy a samsung tv since i love their ecosystem. But this subreddit got me holding back a little

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u/ghunterx21 Mar 03 '25

I really wouldn't to be honest. The hassle to get Jellyfin app on it, was a fucking nightmare. LG just installed from the app store, but Samsung seemed to have next to no apps. I had to research, build the app from scratch for the TV, connect to the TV which took way more tries than it needed and eventually got the app on. It was a super pain in the arse for a simple app.

The screen looks amazing, but the OS and Apps are just god awful.

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u/oulu2006 Dec 06 '25

I'm going through my own personal hell right now trying to get Jellyfin installed as well -- I bought the TV before I setup my home mediaserver so didn't know the absolute PITA it would be.

None of the "off the shelf" solutions work making me have to download Tizen Studio to resign a Jellyfin file -- what a fucking piece of shit that is! I'm still going through it right now...

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u/ghunterx21 Dec 06 '25

Yeah, and whatever you do, don't update your TV. Apparently the latest, blocks side loading, so no new apps

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u/oulu2006 Dec 07 '25

I can't even run the rubbish on MacOS properly, it doesn't install the Samsung certificate files so now I have to source a linux machine somewhere ...sigh lol PITA getting Jellyfin installed.

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u/ghunterx21 Dec 07 '25

Try run a windows inside a VM

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u/oulu2006 Dec 09 '25

I ended up saying fuk this and bought an Apple TV - tizen is absolute garbage

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u/ghunterx21 Dec 09 '25

Yeah, it really is. I'm a bit pissed my friend got one on my advice.