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Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years (the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
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[-] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:

  • the worst UX that you could possibly imagine, with menu after menu arranged seemingly at random, and buttons doing different things at every level
  • functionality delivered via plugins, at least half of which do not work
  • directory scans failing seemingly at random, with the errors hidden away in log files that you have to shell in to retrieve
  • terrible documentation, inevitably consisting of forum pages about how it used to work a decade ago

It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I felt crazy when I tried to use Kodi. Everything was so convoluted to setup.

I was thinking of installing Linux on a mini-pc I have here and just buying a bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo to watch medias. I can run Firefox with ad blocking and easily access my server like that.

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