I’ve found a nice home with Mint Debian edition. It has the right balance between stable and current that I prefer.

Jellyfin does.

I can confirm and I do use this feature of jellyfin. It works great. The reader is unusable. I use Librera for reading. It’s great, free, and open source.

So my flow is biblio, mam, library Genesis, Anna’s. Then to jellyfin folder that it reads automatically. Then I can download that to any device connected to the jellyfin server. Local is easy, abroad through tailscale.

I took a long break from gaming (~15 years). Then when I came back too it I found all these great games that had came and went. So I started parsing through many of the most critically acclaimed games. I hit Arkane, and Dishonored was so incredible (and I got Prey with them in a flash steam sale for a few bucks), I thought I’d give it a try.

I will say it’s probably one of the best games I’ve played in my most recent gaming phase. It is a super solid sci-fi horror where you can engage. I do not like run and hide games, so this one fulfilled my criteria. The story is also classic sci-fi greatness.

It’s also one of the few games I’ve got an itch to play again.

Jellyfin is great but has some issues that can make it annoying. The 3rd party clients are often better than the normal interface. The server is easy to set up. So I can recommend all of it.

Honestly though, just because it isn’t updated doesn’t mean it is not great. I always revert to Clementine myself. Still use it daily and love it. There is an updated variant called strawberry which is updated and works great, but the remote doesn’t work.

I had a beelink ser5, and without giving you the bench marks, I can tell you that many games that were unplayable on cinnamon or kde, did work in openbox. I would log out and back into that DE just to play games.

Just my observation. I have upgraded my PC so I haven’t needed to repeat that with my new one.

Having tried many, I found that the desktop environments matter more than the actual OS, especially on older machines.

Going for something really light, like openbox, lxde, or xfce, caused less frame rate drop and stuttering. At least on my lower powered mini pc.

Honorary mentions to:

Ubuntu Christian Edition

Ubuntu Satanic Edition

And

Hannah Montana Linux

It’s certainly older but Revolution OS is pretty thorough.

That looks excellent, thanks for the recommendation.

Seconded LMDE. Super stable, polished, and intuitive.

After recently finishing all of Nathan For You and the Rehearsal, I can honestly say he’s one of the most original content creators I’ve ever seen. I can’t wait to see this.

I use Doku at work and can attest that it is easy to use and works very well. Even for industrial applications.

Nope. I was in your position with a Pi400, got tired of the poor performance with streaming UHD stuff across multiple devices and went with the ser. I now have a ser 5 and 6, and they are beasts for their size.

I have one of these and it’s outstanding:

https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-SER5-5560U-500GB-Computer/dp/B0B3WYVB2D

The show is much better. But Coen brothers are fantastic film makers.

Not trying to downplay your point about removing functionally, I completely agree. But I bought a 3.5 to usb-c adapter and it works just as well.

No GPU selected?

One thing I can say is that AMD always plays better with Linux. Even their drivers are baked into the kenrnel rather than some half assed system breaking third party drivers.

Criterion Collection

Or

Janus Films

Both offer the best films of all time.

Baldur’s Gate 3.