Not seen that option, it.might be useful. However, If I move from Plex it needs to be familiar to everyone else in the house. Retraining them is tricky.

Yeah tizen based TV. So no android apps.

Using FTP (I assume you mean SFTP) will buy you some performance, as would other protocols that are faster and requiring less compute than SMB.

I predict whatever solution you use will only buy you time. Usage is bound to increase so you’ll still hit the performance limits for the hardware platform at some point, unless you can constrain the simultaneous connections. File sizes will impact scalability a lot as well.

You can’t guess this one. You need to test.

tl;dr - I suspect you can’t win.

I liked Jellyfin when I tested it last year but it had 3 show stoppers for me.

1. Samsung app was flakey and had to be side loaded.
2. Each profile had to use a password and had a full keyboard to enter. Needs a no password option, and a pin pad option.
3. Not everything played successfully.

Have any of these things been fixed?

You know, there was a much shorter range version of this that was predominantly used in offices and college computer rooms. It was called FrisbeeNet.

Damn it. Beat me to it. I’ll be first ext time.

Ok so I just watched that with the audio off cos I’m in a waiting room. I was confused by the commentary. The words sort of fit, then I realised the subs were song lyrics. Arguably made it even more fun to watch.

Interesting. That’s not what happens on mine. I have to actually click into the password box on the primary screen if I want to use that one. Password entry works on both screens so doesn’t really matter which I use, it is just a cosmetic thing that bothers me.

The prompt screen is the same on both monitors. But the typing cursor is in the password box on the secondary monitor.

I had a go at setting the kwin primary using another method but I’ll have a look at copying the settings across like you said.

I’d like that as well.

If you really need one take white list approach. Block everything you don’t need and only open what you need. Have fun finding out what you need.

Me too. I enjoy the @myservername thing as it lets me have one file to maintain lots of servers (Minecraft in my case). I’m sure someone will say other init systems can do the same, but I learnt this one and I like it.

My server has been on Endeavour OS (arch with a gui installer) for at least 18 months. I run updates roughly every 10 days (basically whenever I remember). Never had a problem with it. I dare say it could go horribly wrong at some point so I keep the LTS kernel installed as well just as a fall back.

My main pc is also running Endeavour OS (dual boot with windows 11). Other than having to keep Bluetooth downgraded to support the ps5 dual sense controller, it runs great.

My only gripe is that updates often contain something that forces the kernel rebuild process and so it needs a reboot afterwards.

Every other Linux I’ve run has had some sort of “rebuild to fix” type issue at some point, or had been hard to find good support information for. Endeavour OS has been the most reliable and the easiest to fix and find support for.

Indeed. Steam on Linux does cause issues with filenames. I keep games I run on Linux on an ext4 drive. There isn’t any other choice unfortunately.

I have separate disks so I’m good on the front. The main reasoning is to make Linux my daily as it covers most stuff including my main games. The reason for windows is some video editing in davinci, music stuff which means VSTs, and some games that have anti-cheat. That windows stuff is really only about 15% of my time. I have a windows VM for office when I occasionally must have office, rather than an alternative.

This supports my thinking that ntfs3 is the way to go, or at least worth testing for a while.

Didn’t know about ntfs3 so did some reading about it. There are some reports of corruptions, they were all fixed by letting windows do a chkdsk, and making sure the windows_names parameter when mounting the disk helped prevent problems.

I’m going to live with ntfs3 for a while as see what happens.

sounds like my worries about NTFS reliability in Linux are more about historic reputation so I can probably relax on that front. The other issue with NTFS is performance in Linux is not great. FAT32 and exFat don’t like some filename characters from linux from what I read.

WinBTRFS is tempting. I have frequent backups so I might just give it a try and see what happens.

Endeavour OS

I’ve tried all the usual distros many times over the years but never an arch based distro until last year. I gave arch a go first and it was great but then tried endeavouros and it came with the fixes I needed and was more instantly good from the first boot. The AUR and arch wiki stuff just makes the whole experience most (sry to use this term) Windows like in terms of fixes and support.

Yip. I was trying to find a useful front end to manage the audio settings on my focusrite audio interface. Pipewire has the functions and capability to set the sample rate and buffet size on the fly but I failed to find a gui until for it that wasn’t part of some other complicated thing. When I suggested the Devs of pipewire should provide a GUI I was politely shot down. The reasons given were; it takes too long, and Linux users don’t mind the CMD line. I think this is a mind-set that needs to evolve.