That’s absolutely true

I used to be on the same opinion but I’ve seen plenty of users here say endeavour and Cachy are struggle free unlike archinstall/arch manual.

I’m very sorry to inform you that arch manjaro is the worst of the three you mentioned. The distro is known to have stability issues on a regular basis so additional tinkering and fixing is required. Endeavour and Cachy are both excellent choices though, people here have reported that they’re super stable.

It’s easy to setup permissions and what files it can access and you don’t have to worry about an update making Jellyfin incompatible with your system. Might never be an issue and is a bit more work but it has perks.

If you’re on docker:

Could be that the path to the mounted disk isn’t exposed. (Test: Go into docker container with bash and try listing the movies and try doing a cat textfile.txt to check read access)

Could be that even though the path is exposed the media is not writable. (Test: Go into docker container and do a touch command and see if file pops up). Not sure if relevant but is relevant for Sonarr.

Not mounted?

It could have been mounted once but is not anymore. Not sure how Sparky works but on Fedora Bazzite I had to add fstab line to auto mount the drive on power up.

Generally the rule is that if Jellyfin can see and read the files it can play them and will auto add if the path is configured.

Ah, improper keming

Because they have issues because of their specific setup/hardware/software. I don’t so I like it, it has more features.

Revanced autoskips all of those sponsor/ad segments.

June 2026 had unknown at 20% but they removed it in favor of BSD

You need to introduce your partner to spoons.

I started because I heard it’s good for programming which turned out to be true. Initially stayed because it was customizable but had windows for games. Now just Linux because it’s better for everything I do. I think now people switching to Linux mostly do it because Linux is just better except for niche programs.

KDE has been stable recently unless you’re on some rolling release.

It works on mine out of the box so it’s probably related to something further down the stack. I probably can’t help but what distro?

Technically Plex is a paid closed source but self hosted thingy. I think the line is a bit blurry on this since I wouldn’t mind people posting about Plex even though I use Jellyfin. However, advertising it would be a nono.

Correct

The KDE builtin widget works pretty well. Not sure what OS you’re on.

There are still things that work on X11 that don’t work on Wayland but Wayland has more security, more features and is actually being developed now.

Pick your distros default, if something graphical doesn’t work switching might do the trick.

Common issues with wayland are mostly related to screen sharing or lower level thingies like programmatically pressing the mouse.

Common issues with X11 is VRR, HDR, fractional scaling and multi monitor configuration.

I still sometimes do it randomly because of editor lag in Jetbrains Ideavim, you can just hit u usually until you get back to where you were.

} jump forward to next empty line is really quick for navigating, also if you know the identifier then /myVar<enter>nnnn is much faster than scrolling and gets you ready to edit. Otherwise 5j;;;; also works of course.

I use Neovim as much as possible but Jetbrains C# just has a really nice debugging experience (with Vim mode on, of course). I still use Neovim for reading C# and doing some small edits and it works really well when reading what the LLM wrote.

It’s hard to beat stepping through a method until you hit an exception, go into a catch block, ctrl+O until you hit the last line before the exception, breakpoint, skip to top of method and rerun.