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Cake day: November 20th, 2023

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  • I’ve been using Debian on my desktop for five years now so this information might be a bit outdated, but I have recently installed Mint on my server.

    In my experience Mint (and Ubuntu) have been more beginner friendly with installation and initial setup. I remember trying to install Debian on my MacBook which just crashed on bootup whereas Ubuntu worked out of the box. Mint draws from Ubuntu’s repositories which are more up to date and has more packages in it. Being able to rely on apt for installing packages has meant an easier user experience. And the last thing is that there’s just more information out there for troubleshooting Mint problems than there is for Debian in my experience.

    That’s what I find. I could be wrong about some of the details




  • Only had to do it once. I don’t exactly do a lot of browsing on the PS4 so it stays open to Jellyfin when I open the browser app. Usually just have to hit the back arrow to close out of whatever I watched last and then I’m back at the main menu/Jellyfin homepage or whatever you’d call it to choose the next thing to watch.





  • Docker isn’t needed for Jellyfin. It can be just installed like a regular program. I don’t know about any Arr stacks but Jellyfin by default will identify and fetch metadata for any media included in its library. The library structure that I use is one folder for music, one for TV shows, and one for movies. That’s it. I just copy over manually downloaded or ripped files.

    I use Linux for hosting Jellyfin but the setup was minimal, it was just some Linux specific file permission stuff. Before you get too far into it just download Jellyfin and give it a try! You might be surprised how little setup is needed.