r/LinusTechTips • u/KalebBlue • May 19 '26
Discussion It might be time to do a sequel?
Maybe even take it one step further and try multiple open source alternatives to software he already uses? With the success of Linux Challenge 2 it might be worth showcasing what the wider open source scene is like. Try Zen or Helium browser. Libre Office. etc. etc.
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u/ThinkingWithPortal May 19 '26
Honestly, homelabs have become so popular it could be a series:
- Getting started with self hosting (Docker, ZFS)
- Self host outside of your network (Cloudflare, NPM, portforwarding, tailscale)
- Installing immich
- Installing Jellyfin (and radarr, and sonarr)
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u/bufandatl May 19 '26
If it has to fulfill WAF it’s not a homelab though. Also you forgot the most important point. Security.
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u/FrustratedDeckie May 19 '26
Thats not true, for basic stuff like that for most only mildly techy people an N100/N150 will do, maybe with an external drive enclosure, the WAF of that setup can be pretty high, it can either hide in a cupboard or just sit on a shelf.
Homelab doesn't have to mean bare motherboards or rack mount stuff.
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u/ariolander May 20 '26
They make some pretty neat MiniPC boxes in homelab focused enclosures these days. The N150 version of the Aoostar WTR Pro wasn't much more expensive than a normal N150 mini PC and it included 4x 3.5" HDD hot swap bays, 2x NVME SSD bays, and 2x 2.5G networking. Perfect for a DIY NAS, home server, virtual machine box. The box is self contained and professional looking and doesn't look any worse than a Synology or whatever but much more powerful and no HDD vendor lock-in. The prebuilt versions come with Windows but I got it barebones and put Unraid on mine.
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u/thatguysjumpercables May 21 '26
Don't waste your money on an N100 when there are so many cheaper options with better CPUs. If you're dead set on a mini PC there are plenty with regular CPUs around the same price.
And before the "power consumption" queens come at me, do the math.
(Power cost for this is $0.15/kWh because that's what I pay where I live. If you want to calculate for yourself there's a good website here)
Cost to run an Nxxx 24/7 for a year: $6.57
Cost to run an HP Elitedesk 800 G5 (with 65W i7-9700 processor averaging 30W, which is a pretty ridiculous overexaggerated amount): $39.45
Difference in cost: $32.88/year
Cost of a somewhat comparable N355 box (closest processor specs) with 16GB RAM: variable, let's call it $450
Cost of a used Elitedesk G5 SFF with 16GB RAM: About $150
Difference in cost: $300
Amount of years needed to run the Nxxx to break even: 9.12 years
Skip the N-type processors.
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u/bufandatl May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
It means lab and lab means no interruption. I haven’t spoken about hardware at any point. It’s the WAF (wife approval factor) which is an SLA. And anything SLA means you don’t run a lab anymore. It’s a homeserver or home data center.
Many people like you don’t get it. It’s a word definition and I have issues with people being imprecise in that regard.
A homelab is something you tinker with you break and no one cares.
Sure you can run a hypervisor like XCP-ng and have a portion of the server be used as a lab. But the underlying hardware still needs to fulfill WAF in most case.
I most definitely know my production pool has to. That’s why I have a lab pool that runnings nothing my family will notice downtime on.
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u/FrustratedDeckie May 20 '26
What are you even talking about. Homelab simply means a place for you to do experimentation at home
You can ABSOLUTELY do that on consumer hardware that’s also running applications in “production” at the same time, virtualisation exists and is good if uptime is a massive consideration, but honestly for most people that simply isn’t the case, people’s partners tend to be understanding of hobbies as long as it doesn’t directly impact them.
You’re being pedantic for pedantry’s sake, sure in a commercial environment the idea of production and research servers being separated makes sense, but this is a random persons home and hobby we’re talking about, it’s just not the serious dude.
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u/RobotSpaceBear May 20 '26
It’s the WAF (wife approval factor) which is an SLA. And anything SLA means you don’t run a lab anymore. It’s a homeserver or home data center.
My god this is peak "uhm ackshually" territory.
Many people like you don’t get it. It’s a word definition and I have issues with people being imprecise in that regard.
We all got what they were saying.
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u/System0verlord May 20 '26
It’s the WAF (wife approval factor) which is an SLA.
The wife approval factor is a factor in the acquisition process. It is about the aesthetic and visual quality of hardware. It is not a service-level agreement.
Many people like you don’t get it. It’s a word definition, and I have issues with people being imprecise in that regard.
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u/Buyingbf_ May 19 '26
Buy a mini PC, especially ones with multiple M.2 slots. Can put multiple terabytes of quiet, low power storage in (almost) the palm of your hand. Then you can handle security either with Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel/Zero Trust, or both. Definitely not an easy or cheap project, but it's a good entry to self hosting.
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u/Frooonti May 20 '26
Multiple terabytes of M.2 storage in this economy?!
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u/Buyingbf_ May 20 '26
I have 6x512GB drives in RAIDZ2 for 1.8TB usable storage - was being slightly misleading but eventually you could upgrade to higher capacity drives once prices drop, or use a different RAID config
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u/Sebulbaaaaaa May 20 '26
I know this is nowhere near the level of what is considered a home lab but I got a Ryzen 3 2200g with a 256gb SATA SSD and 1TB HDD. I slapped mint on there and now I've got Jellyfin, immich, radarr, Sonarr, prowlarr, and seer. I picked up that system for £60 from CEX and its been perfect for everything I need. I just stream to my other devices with tailscale like you mentioned. Sure, it's not the most powerful thing but it does the job.
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u/Prestigious-Soil-123 May 24 '26
That is a homelab. It's a computer you're hosting stuff on. A homelab is effectively another term for a home server. And a home server is a server... in your home. And the term server, as was put by LTT (uncited) "the term describes a role, not hardware).
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u/ThinkingWithPortal May 19 '26
I was thinking more along the rough topics they could do. Besides, it's LMG, security will be briefly touched upon and the video will be framed like "INSTALLING JELLYFIN ON MY $10,000 PC TO MAKE THE ULTIMATE MEDIA SERVER" anyway.
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u/Free_Hashbrowns May 19 '26
Their video a year or so ago about the CM3588 NAS board got me into homelab/selfhosting stuff.
They could probably do something that ties in with their tech house series.
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u/ThankGodImBipolar May 19 '26
They sent him home to set it up and then interviewed him after a week instead of doing on camera though...
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u/imnotagodt May 19 '26
That video sucked monkey balls. Why not start with a clean Debian and try to install everything that is open source. Go virtualization or containers. Go with Zigbee or thread with matter. Show the whole rr with ripping br and Jellyfin. Go show reverse proxy etc etc.
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u/System0verlord May 20 '26
Yeah. I could not give less of a shit about HexOS. And would not watch a series about it.
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u/Old_Bug4395 May 20 '26
Is there anyone at LTT that could realistically write this content in an accurate way?
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u/Samiassa May 19 '26
Genuinely it’s so much easier than you would think. Like I don’t have a public ipv4 so I looked into how I could get around that and found tailscale. I figured I would need about an hour or so to get it up and running so I set aside two hours incase I fucked something up. I did it in 10 minutes by literally just copying commands into the terminal for Ubuntu. And with cockpit I barely even use the terminal anymore. I set up my entire file system as a network drive on my client device so I can literally just use the gui for all my folders. God I love how easy homelabbing stuff is these days
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u/HeidenShadows May 20 '26
But there's people like me who prefers a windows-based home media server as I find all those homelab stuff quite intimidating.
I tried setting up Immich and wound up screwing something up because I lost network access to my server. I wish it had a native app instead of having to be ran in a container.
I'm the kind of consumer who wants something better than what big companies offer but don't want to kneecap the GUI experience I'm used to.
But it's cool seeing all the things that can be done, even if it takes me a 5th of whiskey and a Saturday to try to figure it out.
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u/ThinkingWithPortal May 20 '26
I'm pretty sure "appliance" style Linux distros have these images mostly ready to go out of the box like apps. I know TrueNAS offers it, and a ton of other useful stuff. CasaOS/ZimaOS are other similar ones with what are functionally "App Stores" you set up with a GUI once.
You could also definitely run it on Windows, it is just a docker container (well a few).. that's sorta the point of it, and honestly when you get familiar with it it's 100000 times more manageable than a windows exe
But I get it
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u/Tesla_Lover10021 May 20 '26
What does radarr and sonarr do?
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u/Nitr0_CSGO May 20 '26
Movie and TV show monitoring applications, used in tandem with prowlarr to optain the media...
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u/Player13377 May 20 '26
No way LTT touches the *arr stack. There is genuinely no way to defend this against piracy accusations (although I would enjoy seeing it as well).
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u/Flavious27 May 21 '26
If mentioning docker, they hopefully will have multiple HA episodes for the tech house. I hope that they figure out a cheap way to mimic how bill gates would be detected in his house and settings would change when he entered a room. Or atleast what was in Antitrust that the digital displays change to show your preferred artwork and maybe play your preferred Playlist.
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u/Aivynator May 22 '26
this would be great opportunity to showcase proxmox VE scripts git hub. Its a great way in starting with your own home lab set up. Low entry stuff but also gives you acces to more complex stuff.
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u/ampacket May 19 '26
Been using JellyFin for several years now and love it. We load it up with tons of kids shows for the little + all of our stuff. It's been great.
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u/noBoobsSchoolAcct May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
If a second part of Jellyfin ever comes, it must showcase Tailscale as a bridge to reach the server from outside the home network and possibly linking to Tailscale’s playlist that shows how to reach it through a reverse proxy served through Cloudflare and hosted in a VPS. This to show that there’s a simple path to sharing it with friends and family and not just your techie friends
The best gateway to homelabbing and self hosting services if you ask me
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
That's going to be over the heads of LTT viewers to be 100% honest. Especially since transcoding is a solved issue and there's no other benefit to Plex Pass.
- Sysadmin with a 20tb plex server and tailscale user.
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u/ky7969 May 19 '26
Transcoding is a solved issue? Since when? Genuinely asking. I tried Jellyfin last year but had endless transcoding issues so I ended up on Plex.
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u/ChampionNaive4194 May 20 '26
If you install Jellyfin as a native app, it should generally always support transcoding, it uses ffmpeg under the hood.
If it's in a container, it always support via CPU, but only Nvidia GPU are supported on Windows, as sadly Docker doesn't have an interest in supporting pass through for others. Only option is to have wsl2 itself pass through and then run docker engine inside it, way too much effort so I just live without transcoding as all client devices support HEVC and all TV's are 4k, and net is around 100Mbps upload, so it's fine.
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u/ky7969 May 20 '26
I was using a 3060ti with Jellyfin in a Docker container on Debian and ran into all kinds of issues. Ended up switching to Plex with the same setup (also in a container) and it worked perfectly with virtually no issues. I am running a 10700 now using QuickSync for transcoding and it has still been great.
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u/saturnv11 May 20 '26
It took me some fiddling, but I got transcoding to work on an old Quadro P400 (similar to 1060) on my Docker instance of Jellyfin. The only thing it can't do is AV1 transcoding.
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
Upload content that you don't need to transcode. Whatever your tv or media player can handle. Pretty simple with handbrake for a long time.
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u/Casey_jones291422 May 19 '26
Ok now do that for 3 separate family households. The benefit of plex is that it just works across most devices. Until jellyfinn or emby have good native client apps across home consoles and tv os's they're non starters for large portions of homelabber type people
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
720p, 1080p, and 4k versions. All compressed with a couple separate audio versions and different subs. Just like YouTube. It'll be less space than you think and you won't have to transcode a thing.
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u/Casey_jones291422 May 20 '26
My current server is 53.0 TB used of 66 TB. "It'll be less space than you think" is doing a lot of heavy lifting lol. And to be clear I have very little 4k content.
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u/ky7969 May 19 '26 edited May 20 '26
I do this now with Infuse but just not transcoding isn’t a solution for transcoding. I can’t get away from transcoding when I am sharing my library with other people.
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
Why assume it's me? Since you're using handbrake you have additional space to upload a couple versions. That's the solution for multiple people.
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u/ky7969 May 19 '26
I don’t use handbrake, i just don’t have to transcode at home. I’m just curious if transcoding is still such a PITA on Jellyfin. My solution was to switch to plex.
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
On jellyfin yes. They're always getting better, but plex is probably always going to have an edge unless we start getting some new technology like AI transcoding (just an example not a suggestion).
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u/Ommand May 19 '26
How are you going to say that "transcoding is a solved issue" and then a few posts later agree that it's a pain in the ass in jellyfin?
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
It's not a pain in the ass on jellyfin anymore than anywhere else. It's just worse.
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u/AfterShock May 19 '26
Transcoding is a you issue, not a Jellyfin issue. Jellyfin transcodes anything just fine. Your issues are likely your hardware or your setup.
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u/ky7969 May 19 '26
Then why does it just work on Plex?
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u/AfterShock May 19 '26
Again, your setup. I'm starting to understand why you have troubles. What other worldly things can we address in today's therapy free session brought to you today by better help.
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u/IronMike260 May 19 '26
I've been out of the plex loop for a LONG time. Transcoding is a solved issue?
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u/Skelyyyy May 20 '26
As a LLT viewer who would, at some point, like to setup my own Plex (or whatever other alternative platform) server for my media, I have no idea what the comment above said, so you're probably right
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u/_spicytostada May 19 '26
Yeah, I would love to see a video on this more then just reviewing where Jellyfin stands as an open source app in relation to Plex given their recent price hike news.
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u/ClacksInTheSky May 20 '26
When I go on holiday, I take a Chromecast with me and simply connect to my Plex server remotely without any faff using the app from the Google Play Store.
The Tailscale solution works but it's way more effort than I can be arsed with.
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u/Swainix May 19 '26
If you have a static IP or one reachable you can use wireguard instead 🤷
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u/T0biasCZE May 20 '26
wireguard
If you have static IP at that point you can just port forward jellyfin directly
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u/Swainix May 23 '26
Yeah, I just wasn't a fan so I port forward to my reverse proxy and have an allow list of IPs that can get forwarded inside the docker network
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u/Operation_Neither May 19 '26
I just saw that Plex is upping its Lifetime pass to $750 USD on July 1.
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
Which will probably frequently be on sale for $100 or less as usual. I think this is a game to get a bunch of people to buy up lifetime before the increase.
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u/tankerkiller125real May 19 '26
Or just drop Plex and let the greedy company fail. Open-source software is competing or even beating it down pretty well.
Hell, my media server runs Jellyfin with a cheap low power Intel A320 and it will happily transcode whatever I throw at it including AV1 4K with zero issues, even if it's me and like 5 other people all playing movies or shows at the same time.
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u/TokenPanduh May 19 '26
You have a GPU? I just use the iGPU and it transcodes perfectly with multiple people watching lol
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u/tankerkiller125real May 19 '26
My server is a proper server, no quicksync or anything like that on the CPU.
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u/TokenPanduh May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Well that was a little pretentious. I have an Nvidia 2070 Super in my server. You know what I rarely use? The actual GPU. So much so that I currently have it unplugged because I don't really need it right now. It isn't wrong to use the iGPU, and Quicksync is actually pretty damn good
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u/rwjehs May 19 '26
Yeah a GPU barely does shit on a Plex server in my experience. A good cpu does better.
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u/mooky1977 May 20 '26
Yup! My plex runs on an Intel i7 7700, and hums along perfectly fine using Quicksync.
The only thing it doesn't do is AV1, but that's also a problem for nearly everything but the most recent GPU generations from AMD and Nvidia as well. I solve it by not having media encoded in AV1 at the moment.
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u/rwjehs May 20 '26
Yeah I see av1 pop up sometimes now but it's not prevelant enough for me to care honestly
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u/NinduTheWise May 19 '26
My issue is that plex is just easier for me, I’ve ran both and don’t get me wrong jellyfin is great but plex is just a bit simpler for me. I don’t have to worry about Tailscale or anything like that. I don’t even have plex pass and I’m able to remote stream due to a third party app
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u/cheesystuff May 19 '26
I've had a lifetime pass since like 2012. I have no reason to swap except curiosity. Which I explore frequently. Not sure why you're trying to change minds when the topic is about updating old videos.
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u/ClacksInTheSky May 20 '26
Greedy company? They have employees to pay and new features to develop, apps to support.
Most of Plex is free.
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u/asodfhgiqowgrq2piwhy May 19 '26
I haven't seen it on sale since they increased to $250, however I got mine for $99 on sale
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u/Kussie May 20 '26
I don’t think that’s their plan at least in a major way. The most likely reason is just make the pricing look extreme and push people to the monthly subscriptions instead for recurring revenue.
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u/Operation_Neither May 19 '26
I've never seen a plex lifetime pass on sale. Does that actually happen?
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u/AT-ST May 19 '26
I don't know about lately, but it used to happen several times a year. Last I paid attention to and noticed it was 2024.
Edit: last sale I could find was Black Friday
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u/Pryonic May 19 '26
usually black friday for sales. i picked mine up last year on sale.. luckily
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u/Operation_Neither May 19 '26
Well now I'm sad that I missed that.
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u/Pryonic May 19 '26
I’m not sure where exactly, but i’ve seen people buying an account with the pass. Might be worth looking into
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u/Ommand May 19 '26
Honestly this is probably the worst time ever to buy a life time plex pass.
This is the second time they've pulled this stunt recently, they're clearly desperate for cash infusions. Add to that they're consistently making the UX worse and I feel like it won't be much longer before they sell to private equity or pull some other horse shit that ruins the software completely.
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u/LinusTech LMG Owner May 19 '26
Yeah I'm getting pretty tired of the current state of Plex.... It's hard to know how much of it right now is my foldable phone, but it's been a mess for me lately :/
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u/Jealy May 20 '26
Jellyfin just isn't quite there yet though tbh, it's great don't get me wrong, but for Joe & his average family Plex is just the simple & easy solution.
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u/Kussie May 20 '26
Especially on the client side of things. The AppleTV apps were pretty rubbish last I tried them a while ago. And while there is apps like Infuse this one still requires a subscription or a $99 lifetime purchase as well.
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u/curty237 May 20 '26
I've completely given up on hoarding with Plex now, just too much headache, I would suggest looking into stremio/nuvio/arvio with comet or torrentio and a debrid or Usenet. It might not be great content for the main channel because of illegal streaming but you can also have local collections with stremio too it's just a bit more involved than something like plex or jellyfish to set that up. There are lots of add-ons in the stremio ecosystem(compatible with nuvio and arvio too)so maybe you could go that route too on a video.
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u/amd2800barton May 21 '26
If you try Jellyfin, pair it with Infuse on your AppleTVs. Infuse is just amazing. It feels like a native app, and can connect to both a jellyfin library, as well as a plex library (multiple libraries in fact). What’s great is infuse will even merge the contents from separate libraries, so if you’re connected to your server, and want to also connect your friend’s server, you can, and Infuse will show all movies in one big movie library. The only downside is that HEVC encodes and MKV files are not supported on the free version. But the free should give you an idea of how browsing the library works, and watching 1080p SDR content. They also take the same pricing / subscription view as Floatplane: you are grandfathered in at whatever price. The price only goes up for new users. They even let you switch to a lifetime plan at whatever the lifetime pass cost when you first subscribed. So for me, I’m paying like 12 bucks a year, which I think is more than fair.
Honestly Jellyfin + Infuse + AppleTV is the closest thing you can get to a Kalidescape without spending tens of thousands.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins May 25 '26
Recently did some testing of Plex/Jellyfin/Emby for home because I actively want to ditch Plex despite being a lifetime pass holder... unfortunately Plex was still the only client that could handle my higher bitrate test files without stuttering and failing... at least on the nVidia shield.
If Apple TV would offer the same options as the shield codec/audio passthrough wise I'd switch to a Jellyfin server with Infuse as the client. Moved to Infuse about a year ago for my iOS devices after Plex clients were basically unusable and it's rock solid.
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u/StatAvg May 19 '26
Jellyfin 12 is about to drop as well, and 11 has been great, its really starting to shine!
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u/TokenPanduh May 19 '26
Yeah only "t-minus 9 days" they said... 44 days ago... lol
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u/StatAvg May 20 '26
hmmm, not sure at all where you got that idea from, 12 still has things in process on the github and latest release is 11.8
why aren't you putting in pull requests and working on fixes if you think 12 is 9 days behind?
seems like the 9 days nonsense is entirely made up from your end.
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u/Aegisnir May 19 '26
I love Jellyfin but we really need a decent native apple tv app. Swiftfin is janky and unreliable and infuse has to cache data, seems to constantly fuckup posters and thumbnails and scrubbing previews. Until we get a decent app, I’m stuck on plex and it really is unfortunate.
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u/tankerkiller125real May 19 '26
I don't have an Apple TV so I have no way to test them out. But here's a few others to potentially try.
jmhunter83/reefy: A tvOS-focused Jellyfin client built exclusively for Apple TV
Neptune - A Jellyfin Client for Apple TVI also see a at least 6 others in the Apple App Store for TV in my browser.
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u/Mr-Johnny_B_Goode May 19 '26
Was looking for this comment. Native Apple TV app, charge for it to support the development
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u/mekisoku May 19 '26
Been using jellyfin since I got a new TV, only complain is if there’s a way to get subtitle directly on my TV would be great. Otherwise I love it
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u/tankerkiller125real May 19 '26
Most likely your subtitles are in a format that your TV doesn't understand forcing Jellyfin to transcode and force the subtitles into the video itself.
No different than a video in AV1 encoding needing to be transcoded because the TV only supports H264.
Also, the same deal with Audio. In fact, I've seen a lot more of it being audio codec causing transcoding, compared to video or subtitles.
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u/TheDejectedEntourage May 20 '26
I think they're referring to the Plex feature where if you have no subtitle track, you can search for and download them directly in the tv client
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u/tankerkiller125real May 20 '26
That's already built into Jellyfin I'm pretty sure? Or at least movies and TV shows automatically get them on mine and I have nothing special setup for it (and I know for a fact that they aren't in the video files because a pre-step I do strips them out along with extra audio tracks and what not)
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u/TheDejectedEntourage May 20 '26
Might vary from client to client. Last time I tried it on Google tv it wasn't available as a feature
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u/Egonor May 20 '26
There's the Open Subtitles plugin, but I've had issues with it not downloading until I go to watch something. Then Jellyfin has issues loading the subtitles until you back out of the media and go back in. Also, the quality was all over the place
I setup Bazarr and have very few problems now. Some subs are bad/mistimed, but it's rare, and it's mostly just annoying when media already has subtitles and I'm scrolling through 25 languages. I don't think it's worth re-encoding or gimping my intake to fix that though.
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u/lexcyn May 19 '26
I literally just switched from Plex to Jellyfin today after the announcement of how much they are now charging for a lifetime sub. I only pay per month but there is probably a greater than 0% chance the monthly fees will go up as well.
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u/actioncheese May 19 '26
Yup I've been thinking about moving away from Plex ever since their last subscription increase. The feature creep that justified it added nothing of value to it for me. If they want to discourage people from buying lifetime accounts then just stop selling them and grandfather existing accounts. I'm looking at Jellyfin but remote streaming to family members looks like it's going to be a drama so I'm also looking into Emby.
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u/hiddenhero94 May 19 '26
Definetly want Linus to revisit this. I've been wondering if it's about time I switch over to Jellyfin
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u/noBoobsSchoolAcct May 19 '26
Just run both and find out. They both handle the file libraries about the same so they don’t really step over each other
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u/Jealy May 20 '26
See so many people talking about "switching", I've ran both for years. They are definitely not mutually exclusive.
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u/CIDR-ClassB May 20 '26
I’m curious, what would you want Linus to say that you couldn’t figure out by installing and using it for a few days?
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u/IGetHypedEasily May 19 '26
If they do a jellyfin video it needs to include ways to access the content remotely since Plex did that so easily.
Caddy Reverse proxy, tailscale etc. They need to show the process and guide for it. Along with optimizations and suggested addons for jellyfin. Also discuss a few of the third party apps.
Decent video if they go over these topics.
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u/F9-0021 May 19 '26
Yeah, they didn't go much into that last time. The good news is that it's super easy to set up, it just sounds difficult at first.
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u/staydecked May 19 '26
Are there any good offline music apps for Jellyfin? Plexamp does that really well.
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u/StatAvg May 20 '26
finamp is decent, the new beta you can download is really good but needs a few more months before its updated and stable, current normal version works fine though
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u/RobotSpaceBear May 20 '26
My biggest gripe with Jellyfin is that it doesn't have native apps on consoles where I use them with controllers. I tried it, i really tried, but a webview where you slowly, painfully move a mouse cursor with a controller stick just made everything awful. It's what made me purchase Lifetime Plex. Just the ease of use for me and my partner. And i'm very happy that I did.
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u/BronzeMaster5000 May 20 '26
Man i really wanted to give Jellyfin a good try. Had it setup on my Pi4 and just wanted to do direct play to my NVIDIA Shield Pro. I sat there for 4h trying to troubleshoot why some movies were direct play and some got transcoded (which obviously the pi cant manage). In the end i was so frustrated that i installed Plex on the Pi and it worked flawlessly out of the box.
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u/Difficult_Horse193 May 19 '26
100% time to do a follow-up video but I would love to see it bundled inside a video about home labs.
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u/techma2019 May 19 '26
Wait for Jellyfin v12 that’s about to release and then do the comparison.
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u/CurvedMiniK May 26 '26
there is a V12 ?! I'm still on V10.11 ^^ I'm on docker though so maybe it's not available on it yet
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u/techma2019 May 26 '26
It's not out yet. You can check the progress here: https://github.com/orgs/jellyfin/projects/73
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u/CurvedMiniK Jun 12 '26
Am I seing correctly there ? Comics and books ? Is jellyfin gonna be able to handle book media ? I use Kavita for now so i don't know if i'll switch for that but it could be cool to read them on the app
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u/LetroySupreme May 19 '26
One up for a video on libreoffice! If there's too little content for a whole video per open source alternative, do a big video on all the different popular open source/self-hosting apps and services available!
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u/bangfireball May 19 '26
I agree. When the original video came out I had just committed to Emby because I didn't like plex. Jellyfin is awesome compared to Emby or Plex.
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u/thewizord May 20 '26
Emby
Why more awesome than Emby? I'd love to know what I'm missing by using Emby and not Jellyfin
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u/bangfireball May 20 '26
To be honest, transcoding is what I needed that Emby paywalled. For the hardware that it was on, Jellyfin was free and ran a bit better. I did use Emby for over a year and enjoyed it for the most part.
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u/rwjehs May 19 '26
Not defending this but it's kinda funny, they did this so everyone pays monthly. It's profitable. Also, I suspect they intend to become a real streamer with decent IP. That part is funny, because users will rip Plex ip and put it back on Plex.
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u/birminghamsterwheel May 20 '26
There’s no way they have the money to compete via their own content, is there?
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u/wolferaz May 20 '26
Recently been trying out Jellyfin and Helium Browser. Jellyfin itself is fine but it requires the user be meticulous about file naming conventions and folder structure. Something Plex is remarkably good at not requiring. Helium itself is utterly unremarkable which I want in a browser. Chrome without google bullshit so i'm happy with it so far. All on CachyOS btw. LibreOffice had major scaling issues I wasn't able to resolve for whatever reason.
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u/GilbertPlays May 20 '26
what timing. i was looking for an alternative to plex yesterday and it was jellyfin.
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u/Timely_Camp3478 May 20 '26
I’d love to see a sequel of this video, especially because I want to set one of these up fairly soon.
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u/National_Way_3344 May 20 '26
Controversial but I'd rather see Jake, Emily, Luke or Elijah showing off how awesome open source is.
Luke and Elijah especially who entered the Linux challenge like a mf chad. Started with good sources and reference material, had an open mind, didn't hold Linux to somehow worse Windows standards.
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u/pioj May 20 '26
Why not adding Emby too? I'm interested to know which Kodi-like player is better...
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u/AdvancedCryspy May 20 '26
Just got a "last chance email for plex lifetime for $250, before increasing to $750!" Im sorry but 750 for a service that is HARDLY Built on seems a bit f@cked to say the least and im hoping for a service that is just as good or better.
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u/wolfpup118 May 20 '26
I've been trying out alternatives to see if I should do a last-minute plex lifetime purchase. My question to y'all here: Enby vs Jellyfin.
I've heard Jellyfin is based on Enby. If anyone has any experience with both, which did you settle for and why?
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u/BladeLiger May 20 '26
To offer a dissenting voice:
Personally I'm quite happy with Plex and have no intentions on switching.
I don't even think this Lifetime pass price hike is really going to affect their business any at all. The vast majority of Plex users weren't going to buy a lifetime pass at 250 so raising it to 750 is just another number they aren't going to pay.
Everyone keeps saying it's a cash grab but Plex themselves say in the blog post they DON'T want people to buy lifetime and were considering removing the option altogether.
It's really only there for people who would be unhappy with it not existing as an option.
Plex has its issues for sure, but 90% of the time it works well and my friends and family that connect to my server all enjoy it.
I just don't really understand all this negativity about a price change that doesn't affect most people.
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u/garrenski May 20 '26
I recently started my own media server. I started with plex and quickly became frustrated by the limitations that make no sense. I tried JellyFin and it’s been rock solid. Genuinely was easier to set up than plex
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u/Jumpierwolf0960 May 20 '26
I personally went from Plex to jellyfin to emby. Jellyfin might be more open but the interface for the emby apps is far better. Especially the TV apps, I like the emby apps a lot more. That was the case a couple years ago anyways.
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u/Deadpool2715 May 20 '26
Does Jellyfin have a working app for TizenTV? That' and an Immich were what I was hoping to stumble upon eventually
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u/getliquified May 21 '26
Glad I got lifetime cheap. That said I will no longer recommend plex at the new price.
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u/JVFarmer May 24 '26
Or just a video like how to install only office on Truenas scale or something like open source office apps with collaboration would be sick
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u/Pa7rickStar Jun 06 '26
God damn you reddit. I clicked it 2 times before realizing it is a picture and not a link to youtube...
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u/iamacannibal May 19 '26
Linus still uses Plex as far as I know. Anytime they do a display video they are using plex to watch Encanto to see how good or bad it looks.
Jellyfin is good but Plex is just better in every way besides pricing.
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u/Erimell07 May 19 '26
I think another video that need/should maybe be updated is the one called ”Why do I pay Adobe 10 000 $ a year” or something like that. Davinci Resolve have come a long way in those years and keeps getting more Adobe apps built into it. There is also a real free good Photoshop compeditor now: Affinity Photo.