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I don’t think Linux as currently designed is built to be that effectively

I agree, but only in the sense that I think Linux is in its Windows 98 era and still making some things hard that should be easier. That’s ostensibly because of the Linux philosophy of user choice but it also bites people in the ass sometimes.

Depends on how much knowledge you’re interested in acquiring in the first 3 months and how much you like to play around. When I was a kid, I broke Windows a lot because I was learning what you can and can’t do. Adults don’t have that kind of time to explore and fix things that break and a lot of us aren’t intellectually curious about technology.

If you’re a tech person at all and like solving problems (or you have someone in your household who would admin your system), I think it’s ready for you. But if you’re an end user who wants every Windows feature and more on Linux and can’t/won’t fix things by searching, it’s not ready.

A lot of very online gamers are absolutely vehemently against anything they don’t personally find value in. I’ve seen Windows users on Reddit get smug like this because they’re operating on the assumption that the limitations on Linux from 10-15 years ago were never overcome and, thus, “Linux sucks because it can’t run games.”

To me, it’s just another version of the Android vs. iOS cope for users who think their choice to use a specific ecosystem makes them superior. The reason I shill for Linux is because it’s free, I like supporting underdogs, and most Linux desktops are ready for daily use including gaming, not because I think Linux is objectively better than Windows.

Why are you entering commands that you read about online without knowing what they do? There’s a running joke that you need to enter rm -fr / to remove the French language from your system; it actually wipes the entire disk mounted to /.

When you know what the commands do, using the terminal is always going to be faster (i.e., more productive) and use fewer system resources than using a GUI. That’s just a fact, sorry if it annoys you when people point it out. Whenever I need to move a lot of stuff around, I will always use mv instead of Thunar (my file manager) even though I prefer a GUI for most tasks.

This sucks ass. I’m a lifetime Plex Pass holder, so this doesn’t affect me yet, but who’s to say they won’t fuck over lifetime users sooner rather than later?

Honestly, this made me consider setting up Jellyfin. What the fuck?

Not really, I just switched last December because it was being shitty and I was sick of the last 25 years of using it. I’m a recent Linux adopter.

Are you talking about the OS/DE or all of the software? Most Linux distros have a GUI (and have had them for over a decade if not longer) so I’m really confused by your comment.

Almost all of my software has a GUI, and my GUI file manager is more than capable, so I don’t even usually use mv, cp, touch, mkdir, etc. for files anymore. I use a GUI text editor, email client, browser, music player, etc. Even Steam looks exactly the same as on Windows.

My wife uses Linux Mint Debian Edition and never uses the command line. She has literally never opened it because she’s intimidated by it lol.

Even if you are right that using the terminal ever is not user-friendly, that means that Windows is not user-friendly since I was forced to use it every time the OS fucked up randomly and I had to do sfc /scannow to fix my boot drive.

Not to mention the countless times a Windows forum power user posted a command for people to run that was supposed to fix everything.

Try conduwuit instead of Synapse if you get stuck. For me, it was really simple to install and the dev is really nice.

I got a Matrix server set up with conduwuit but the problem is that none of my friends are on there so I don’t use it. The one friend I made the damn thing for so we could chat just started going through a bunch of personal stuff so now it won’t be used for a while. FML.

Ah, that would do it! Thanks for the information.

That’s interesting, I wonder why no one in these comments mentioned it if it’s a bit farther along than Jellyfin. Maybe just good word-of-mouth marketing?

I’m seeing a lot of love for Jellyfin in the comments. Seems like Jellyfin is finally mature enough to give a real shot.

Does anyone know how Emby is doing in relation to Plex feature parity?

It was a cool idea, but I could never get it to sync everyone’s playback properly without constant buffering for all involved. We just sync manually by counting down from 3.

I don’t mean to be glib or upset you, but you still have lifetime access to the versions of Sublime Text for which you paid; you just don’t get free updates to the next version. AFAIK, that’s been the way they’ve done things for years.

Is there any reason you want a self-hosted service for this rather than making an account with TMDB or TVDB? Trakt fetches all of its metadata from those 2 sites (it prioritizes TMDB).

Not that you shouldn’t self-host an alternative, but you don’t have to.

I have everything containerized (Podman) on my Debian PC and use Diun to check for updates and send notifications to a Discord server that I monitor. I do all of my updates manually so I don’t update unless I have time to troubleshoot; if it breaks I still have the configs and data so I can delete the container and start over.

I also do monthly backups to cold storage (yeah, they should be weekly/biweekly but it’s just personal data that I’m okay with losing). I don’t use a RAID config or BTFS/ZFS like some do, so it’s pretty easy to just set it and forget it. It really depends on what you’re trying to do, how bulletproof it needs to be, and how you like to organize things.