I tend to agree. When I built a PC from spare parts for my brother-in-law, I put Bazzite on it. Very clean and relatively foolproof

Nobara is Fedora but pre-configured for gaming. They mention it briefly in the video.

Agreed, but I’ve been seeing people recommending Arch as a first distro lately, so…

Is it an assumption if there’s a complete lack of unit tests?

Unclear

I used to run the Liquorix kernel with Mint. Should work fine. It’s based on the latest upstream with some extra tuning for desktop specific performance. Usually only a day or two behind upstream latest.

So happy to hear this. It’s so nasty to me when devs lock essential features like offline playback behind a paywall.

Audiobookshelf is great. For iOS I’ve got a friend with an iPhone who said that Still is feature complete and the in-app purchases are basically just an optional donation.

Closer to 1600

Sounds like your government or ISP is blocking it

Don’t trust AI to know what they’re doing for you. The only time they work reliably as a tool is when you already know what you’re doing enough to spot their errors/hallucinations.

AI is the wrong tool here. You need to do real internet research.

If you don’t upgrade the RAM, go with Linux Mint with the MATE desktop. If you do upgrade to 8GB RAM, probably LMDE? You don’t need to be on a bleeding edge kernel with a Windows 8 era laptop, modern optimizations will not affect perf much.

Jellyfin, my one true platform

I suspect you could get the price on something like this down to maybe $100-$150. Basically a small low-power Intel box with an SSD and at least 8G of RAM could handle all of these services.

The hard part would be pre-configuring each of them and building/adapting software to make this kind of stuff easy for end users.

Pretty sure even pirated copies can make a Larian account and add friends thru that.

Happy to help!

I just use mergerfs and SnapRAID so I can scale dynamically when I can afford new drives. Granted it’s all fully replaceable media files on my end, so I’m not obsessed with data integrity.

Sure, I don’t doubt they’ll continue with at least one more minor patch in the coming weeks. Typically it’s not till something like .3 or .4 till the minor version patches cool down

It’s better to do it now, now that a bunch of the migration edge cases were ironed out by 10.11.1

It helps if your server can decode AV1, but you never need it to encode to AV1. Basically the main usecase for transcoding AV1 would be burning in ASS formatted subtitles, commonly used for anime. If you keep your anime in other codecs then you shouldn’t need to transcode AV1 ever unless you add more clients into the mix that can’t handle AV1 natively.

For what it’s worth, I use an Intel N100 with quicksync, and that can decode AV1 because it’s 12th gen. Works great for me.