I appreciate this recommendation. I’ve been trying it out for like 5 minutes and I’m very impressed! This could be life-changing and lead to me axing Spotify. Thank you kind stranger!

Thousands…? Lol probably 3

You can also choose a one time fee with plex

There are other options if you want something entirely free. I’m actually surprised that feature was ever free.

I tried jellyfin and thought Plex was better in all aspects personally. Yeah, it sucks to lose free features, then again no one is owed fully free software from a commercial company

But they develop the software and need to fund that regardless of technical reasons.

Yeah, they’re just bitching. Pretty funny imo

Ditto to all of this, except I don’t know anything about plexamp

No but the fact that software is reasonable to charge for does.

Same. People want literally unlimited shit for free

Every time one of these gets posted I say “wait what? That was free before??”

This is the kind of feature I think is reasonable to charge for. As were the others people were complaining about. Plex lifetime pass is a one time fee.

I love it. Way to go!

Oh, got it. I thought you were saying the only people to like Linux are those who grew to hate windows. that describes me.

I disagree. If you’re starting from nothing, and you buy a pre-installed, linux is easier by far. The general populace does not install windows themselves either so let’s not compare that aspect.

You’re right that most people don’t use the RE. That was a bad example I guess.

The point of my question is this though: as pointed out in the original post, maintaining windows is no easy lift. To the point that your average user knows and hates the constant windows update process, and needs an “IT guy” in their life to help them overcome the hurdles which will arise. The idea that windows just works is a fallacy. Also same with Mac (or linux), but honestly? To a large degree linux can be that way for most users most of the time. Probably even more so than macs as long as it’s a good setup to begin with (the right distro, the software installed the user needs). Most people just need a browser. And it’s not without challenges just to keep even that running on windows. I’m aware of zero linux distros which force updates and even if you seek them out and install them, they aren’t very disruptive 99% of the time.

The best example of fighting the good fight as far as OSes. Good on you. Linux these days is for sure way better than commercial oses in most ways. Windows is more supported and macos is more obsessively polished on the surface. Otherwise they got nothing going for them

True but have you tried windows? The registry editor is just one example of the top tier bullshit that the windows apologists will gloss over. To them it’s normal to have to open what I’m sure started as a tool Microsoft only saw themselves using just to fix basic problems that shouldn’t have occurred in the first place

Exactly! For the majority of people it is easier yet many people will fight you to the death that the opposite is true

Hmm, I’m not aware of those tracks or how they work. I only really was able to install arch from a specific guide because the device is a raspberry pi 5

I think it’s very stable for what it is. But I still had it break remote desktop, wifi functionality, and something about graphics that caused weird glitches in Firefox. These issues all took months to fix, each. For most tech savvy people it’s probably stable enough but for the less common hardware, the only reason I could keep using and updating it was by leveraging timeshift. I would update everything, test if my issue was solved, see it still present then rollback. I did that process dozens of times.