2024-08-15, 10:55 PM
First let me say I'm very grateful for the creators of Jellyfin and the people who offer helpful advice on the subject of media self hosting in general.
I started out as just an experiment running Jellyfin on an extra Windows 10 PC and it turned out to be so useful, my family uses it all the time.
Now the itch to further myself into self hosting leads to the inevitable switch to something Linux. I don't self host anything besides Jellyfin at the moment, but I'd love to experiment in the future and frankly, I've just always wanted to try Linux at home so here we go.
My questions are:
I'm comfortable messing with windows BIOS and whatever it takes to get to a Linux OS, but since I have Jellyfin running so well on Windows + several Roku clients, I'd really hate to break it and start over.
Thanks!
I started out as just an experiment running Jellyfin on an extra Windows 10 PC and it turned out to be so useful, my family uses it all the time.
Now the itch to further myself into self hosting leads to the inevitable switch to something Linux. I don't self host anything besides Jellyfin at the moment, but I'd love to experiment in the future and frankly, I've just always wanted to try Linux at home so here we go.
My questions are:
- Which distributions should I care about when Jellyfin is the main focus? I don't want anything unofficial or hacked together, just whatever is optimized for the smoothest Jellyfin experience. I'm thinking Ubuntu or Debian but definitely open to suggestions.
- I see some guides for migrating an existing Jellyfin Library that I can follow, but being totally new to Linux, are there any Windows > Linux suggestions I can implement before starting?
- Does networking/firewall/IP address information translate over fairly well?
I'm comfortable messing with windows BIOS and whatever it takes to get to a Linux OS, but since I have Jellyfin running so well on Windows + several Roku clients, I'd really hate to break it and start over.
Thanks!