Help setting up Jellyfin and Jellyseerr

[potatoking]

Hi all,

First off sorry as I'm sure this has been asked a dozen times before and people may be sick of this being asked, but I am totally pc illiterate and am wanting to move away from streaming sites like Netflix. I've setup Jellyfin and I'm struggling to understand in laymans terms what steps I need to do to setup Jellyseerr on win11.

From what I've understood so far I now need to setup Pi Self Hosted Portainer, and use this to install and manage Dockers for Jellyseerr? Is this right, and is there an ELI5 guide or explanation on how to do these steps? Or, do I have it totally wrong and there's something else I need to do instead?

[gccalvin]

Don't worry about Portainer, that's used to "orchestrate" and manage docker containers. Not needed for Jellyfin or Jellyseerr. Look into Docker Desktop for Windows and/or Docker Compose and follow the instructions provided within Jellyseer's documentation.

[bitmap]

For the love of jebus don't use Docker Desktop. Learn a bit about docker compose and go that route. Portainer can be useful but obfuscates a lot of the mechanics and you learn less about the underpinnings of docker.

[potatoking]

For the love of jebus don't use Docker Desktop. Learn a bit about docker compose and go that route. Portainer can be useful but obfuscates a lot of the mechanics and you learn less about the underpinnings of docker.

Far out people like you give me the shits. People like you have a deep understanding of this, and so you don’t see the need to explain the fundamental basics.

• Why not use Docker Desktop?
  
• Learn a bit about Docker Compose in what regards? What is a bit, and how of a learning a bit relates to setting up Jellyfin and Jellyseerr?
  
• What does Docker Compose do that the Docker Desktop not do?
  

Like I said right off the bat, I am totally pc illiterate and as much as I’ve tried to understand the next steps no one is explaining what these are in laymans terms. It’s all people like you – who expect everyone to have a baseline understanding right off the bat and can’t break it down in plain language.