Hardware / OS

[THRobinson]

So, I decided after 15+yrs to give Kodi the boot and try Jellyfin instead.

I just upgraded to a new PC and my old PC I'm thinking should be good enough to run as a server.

Here are the specs... for those unfamiliar with Xeon, it's basically in i7-7700 without a built in GPU.

https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/pJFbsX

Should this be enough for running a server for 2 x TV's, plus a laptop? The TV's are connected using CAT6 ethernet, no WiFi. The server will be Cat6 as well. Laptop is WiFi.

Also... I have about 20min experience with Ubuntu. How hard is it to setup this stuff on a Linux system? I plan to hopefully connect to the server with my PC for dropping new files onto the drives, probably like I do now with mapped network drives. Is there much difference in performance? or just put Win10 on and save myself some grief?

[TheDreadPirate]

If you don't need to transcode, a potato can run Jellyfin. But if your clients need transcoding, that CPU would struggle. But adding an Intel Arc GPU would make it a transcoding beast.

Only switch to Linux if want to learn Linux. IMO, it is worth it and you will learn to love it. But if you just need to get up and running, there is nothing wrong with Windows.