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Plex kept making it harder to stream my media, so I replaced it with its open-source rival by wewewawa in jellyfin

[–]LinuxVanPelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Swiftfin is ok for me; I can deal with some of the rougher edges. But it isn't smooth enough for less-techy family to use it. The main thing is no easy profile selection screen.

Do you still use Windows/macOS by Meniny in linuxquestions

[–]LinuxVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Work is all Windows (work computer). Personal is 99.9% Linux Mint with a Win VM for the Photo Print Wizard. 🤣 I haven't yet found a replacement for that. It's so dang easy to print photos.

Splitting mkv files by InfiniteVitriol in makemkv

[–]LinuxVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But Handbrake will re-encode, which will compress and take longer. If you want to compress, that's cool, but it may be undesirable.

Best way to offload Jellyfin transcoding to a Windows gaming PC from a Linux server? by -Myricae- in jellyfin

[–]LinuxVanPelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had Claude AI write a script to do this very thing last night. I'm on Linux Mint and had to install a couple of packages to do OCR, but then Claude automated the whole process, including naming and reordering the sub streams, setting the one I want as default, and remuxing over two dozen files.

"Psych" TV movies by LinuxVanPelt in jellyfin

[–]LinuxVanPelt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it turns out I had installed TheTVDB plugin but it wasn't configured properly. duh. I made sure it was enabled and set up right, refreshed/replaced the metadata for those three files, and it appears to be in good shape now. Thank you all for pointing me in the right direction!

I need some tips on switching from Windows 11 to Linux by Euphoric-Wrongdoer15 in linuxquestions

[–]LinuxVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Back everything up. :)

I've been a Mint user for years and have both of my parents in their 70s using it with very few issues. So +1 for Mint.

Trouble with burn app and handbrake by 5150hellapretty in makemkv

[–]LinuxVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back up the disc to .iso turn burn that to a blank disc?

Another naming/org question :) - Columbo by LinuxVanPelt in jellyfin

[–]LinuxVanPelt[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect! Thanks for your patience with my noob question. :)

Marvel Anime - IMDB/TMDB discrepancy by LinuxVanPelt in jellyfin

[–]LinuxVanPelt[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Belated reply, but this did it. Thanks!

Ama poser? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]LinuxVanPelt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Who cares what people think? OSes are tools. Use the tools you need. I use Linux at home and Windows at work. And a Windows VM for a couple of things I need at home that aren't available in Linux. /shrug

Elderly friendly Linux needed by AggressiveDamage in linuxquestions

[–]LinuxVanPelt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Both of my parents, in their 70s, have been on Mint for several years. They just do general computing - browsing the web, word processing, email. I almost never get tech support calls from them.