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How good do blu-ray drives work on Linux these days?
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The drives should work fine, for standard blurays and self wrote disks. There are a mature cli utilities and often the gui version is just a frontend for the cli tools. It is just an optical drive otherwise.
Arch Linux Wiki : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray
Check out makemkv, which has a cli option, and their forum for compatibility for 4K blurays. Newer bluray drives have additional protection for 4K if I understood correctly.