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People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question) (discuss.online)

submitted 3 weeks ago by kiol@discuss.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] dmtalon@infosec.pub 100 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lifetime subscriber when it was like $75 bux

Setup and runs on my NAS (unRAID) Uses a small GPU to transcode as needed Shared only with non technical family members

Has worked as is for YEARS.

So, the question is, am I looking for something to replace a working free (prepaid) solution I have? That answer is nope.

[–] violentfart@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Having non-technical family on board is priceless tbh.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, my mom uses it. My mom. I have to remove search bars from her chrome like it's 2005.

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is my POV. It already works perfectly, is prepaid, and is accessible to my nontechnical users. Switching would be a major pain for a worse experience.

Also, Plexamp.

Someday in the future no doubt Plex will enshittify for lifetime users such that it will justify a change, but that hasn't happened.

[–] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

+1 to all of this. I paid for it when it was $90 lifetime, before either Jellyfin was popular before I heard of it, who knows. It works fine. No reason to put extra effort into replacing something that I have no problems or qualms with.