Please help me with a clean start for consuming media

[carvegybe]

Hi All

You know when you're hungry and you walk past a steakhouse...it makes you wonder what's inside? Well, I'm smelling the benefits of Jellyfin but I have never managed to make it work. I think part of the problem is that I tried to run it on a NAS (WD PR2100) which sounds like a mistake because (1) NASes aren't good at this and (2) WD...

I currently run my music media from something installed on the NAS called the Twonky Server and my video/photo media from NAS-connected Nvidia Shield Pro (ancient) Android-box with Kodi installed on it (giving me all kinds of errors but somehow working)....

I am now moving from the US to Germany (permanently) and have an opportunity to reset everything and start the set up properly, starting from getting the right hardware. I'd still use the WD NAS, but only as a media source, not a media server.

I am short on time, but I am willing to play with Linux...it feels like the right way to go. I learned how to SSH and run a few commands on the NAS, but the experience feels like running DOS 3.1 in the 1980s...I

My media collection is a disaster....disorganised and insufficient...I never figured out how to access broadly available content and would love to branch out...as my wife and I have a wide range of interests...e.g. Australian Masterchef (the good old seasons), World Rugby, Scandinavian crime series.

So I need to get all this under control and I think I need to start with the right hardware, which I assume needs to be some mini PC with enough memory and a CPU/GPU that will handle current and future needs.

Any help would be appreciated, especially given all the Black Friday sales in the US now.

I am sure I will soon revert with software / installation - related questions. 

Thank you in advance for pointing me to some structured content about how to walk this path...

[carvegybe]

Further to the above, I'm thinking about getting this for the Jellyfin server: https://www.amazon.com/CyberGeek-Ubuntu-...to_dp&th=1

Any thoughts? There seem to be some negative comments about Realtek wireless chip not working well with Linux Mint and regarding limited BIOS access making it difficult to update to Ubuntu v 23.10.

Thanks in advance!

[TheDreadPirate]

Preferably you'd use the Ethernet connection instead of wireless. Then any concerns about Realtek wireless chipsets no longer matters.

Otherwise, it is a perfectly good mini-PC for Jellyfin.

[carvegybe]

Thank you, TheDreadPirate!