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Thanks! Seriously, other than the driver issue, that had me running around in circles for hours and hours, the rest of it went pretty smoothly. And bog standard fedora 44 workstation runs no slower than XFCE spin. That surprised me.
But I’m taking it slow slowly today, because I’m so fucking traumatized from yesterday, lol. I really thought I was gonna lose a very reliable workhorse server, even though it’s pretty slow. It’s very reliable as a Plex server.
I ran fedora on live iso, and it was buttery smooth. I just prefer Debian on my daily.
I tried Plex. Found myself pulling my hairs for features that come standard (and free) on jellyfin, so went that route instead. It's been smooth sailing since.
Really? I’ve been running Plex for almost 20 years, and when I tried jellyfin, I’ll admit, I saw a more than a couple of interesting features here and there, but I came away looking at a system that I saw in Plex 18 years ago and that I very much look forward to seeing evolve into something bigger and better, but is under developed and immature for now. That said, it is an ambitious project that I enthusiastically support. I don’t particularly like the direction that Plex is going, and it is well beyond time that it open source project fork off to continue what Plex was originally designed to do.
Don’t get me wrong, jellyfin is definitely the future. But jellyfin today exists as approving ground for the future. For today? And after nearly 2 decades of investment in it? I’m sticking with Plex for now and for probably several years. I administer my own server and a few other servers with many many users. I’m not migrating away from Plex for a long time.
Not out of loyalty, just because it’s what best meets mine needs at the moment.
But jellyfin? I’m gonna be around for a long time, and I’m keeping my eye on that project. I expect that’s where the future will be. But not for a while.
But as soon as it’s good enough, I’ll be happy to migrate
Plex is more "enterprise" in its UI and some featuresets, but so are their payment tiers. I don't have many folks on my server, so paying for features that are free on jellyfin doesn't make sense for me. Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but they had a major update late last year that upgraded the experience significantly. My main issue is that a janky Minix miniPC sucks at serving videos lol I really need to upgrade to something from this decade (literally released in 2016).
I’m running three different servers that service about 15 different users. And I’ve been running those servers for many many many years. And each of those servers have had lifetime passes since they were between 50 and $150. That was a long time ago.
I get where you’re coming from. If I were just starting out, and or if I just had myself to serve, I’d probably just be on jellyfin. And I fully support open source software (which Plex used to be), and I fully support an open source alternative to Plex. Remember, Plex used to be the open source alternative too… In fact, Plex was based on XBMC, the open source alternative to… Itself! So is kodi, so is Emby…
Plex is the project that made it to commercial success, but has, at this point, grown a bit beyond even what I want to do with it. But it’s just, currently, the best solution for my current needs. But jellyfin in its current state is about 10 years behind where Plex is today. I would switch to it in a second if it could meet my needs right now, but it just can’t. I know this, because I keep a very close eye on it, and I fiddle around with it from time to time. It just can’t do what I need to do. Not yet.
But the second i can, I’ll switch.