At least you learned a lot along your journey, while getting paid for it. So it’s not entirely a waste of time.

On the contrary, I’d still argue it’s a good distro for beginners, but not for newbies. people who are tech-sawy and not hesitant to learn new things.

I jumped straight into EndeavorOS when I switched to Linux, since arch was praised as the distro for developers, for reasons.

Sure, I had some issues to fight with, but it taught me about all the components (and their alternatives) that are involved in a distro.

So, once you have a problem and ask for help, the first questions are sorts of “what DE/WM do you use?.. is it X11 or wayland? are you using alsa or pipewire?”.

Windows refugees (like me) take so many things for granted, that I think this kind of approach really helps in understanding how things work under the hood. And the Arch-wiki is just a godsend for thst matter. And let’s be real, you rarely look into Arch-wiki for distros other than Arch itself, since they mostly work OOTB.

ha?!

Hey Canada, just so you know: I’m an European, and I watch “Son of a Critch” and “Shoresy”

Some people just don’t want to store anything on their devices for whatever reason.

RealDebrid and AllDebrid

It doesn’t. It’s nothing like any of these two. They provide local media content, Odin on the other hand streams media directly provided by the debrid service.

So, no downloading and hoarding involved.

no local media collection.

Exactly. It gets the streaming links instantly from the debrid service.

It doesn’t download anything and also does not fetch any local media. It uses jackett to scrape sites like 1337x.to for magnets, sends these magnets to realdebrid/alldebrid and gets a streamable link back which you can watch instantly.

By arr-suite… I meant the automated setups that people do, to get stuff downloaded directly into the movies/shows folders, hoarding huge MKV files, etc… Sorry for the confusing wording.

I don’t use the arr-suite myself, but I think you’re on point. Since It doesn’t download anything, and gets the streams directly from RD or AD, there’s no need for overseer.

You .ight be careful though, because RD doesn’t allow using their service from multiple locations at the same time (whatever thsat means)

Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.

Microsoft: De nada, amigo! Oh… here’s an ad, btw… and…did you enable Recall already?

are they even actively developing it? repo seems abandoned

I would suggest not to rely on that. Give the DHCP a range, use manual IPs outside of that range