frozen

A more crude variation than using dedicated ripping tools is using yt-dlp. If you need a login to a service, you can pass the username and password or login with a browser and pass in the browser's cookies. I've personally heard you can do that to at least rip sub-gated Twitch VODs, anyway.

I think it'll be really difficult, if not impossible, to hide all Windows-only games, as I believe Steam will still show Deck-verified games and other games that run on Proton well. ProtonDB lets you exclude Linux-native games, so if they have that information, there may be another service somewhere that lets you filter to only include native games, but I don't know of one.

The difference between paranoia and fear is the difference between not wanting to buy a Google Home because it listens to you and not wanting to buy a Google Home because you're afraid you'll break it.

Only if you play CoD, Fortnite, or Destiny 2. If you're technically inclined and don't mind working around some issues, gaming on Linux has come a long way and can be used for pretty much anything else. I used to dual-boot Windows for games, then I went to booting Windows in a VM and gaming with a spare, passed-through GPU. But I haven't booted my VM in months, and I play lots of games.

Stuff like this is really common in the States, too. In my state, counties take care of their own roads (outside of interstate highways), and it can be really obvious where the county line is, especially if you're traveling between counties with vastly different socio-economic demographics.

I mean, I have a ton of media that Plex recognizes automatically and Jellyfin doesn't, so... Agree to disagree, I guess. I'm not trying to defend Plex's recent enshittification, but that doesn't change the fact that it's generally a better experience than Jellyfin right now.

Plex is definitely easier to set up. I've done it multiple times over several servers. I've literally never heard of the database breaking, and I've deleted media that was actively being watched. Meanwhile, Jellyfin fails basic metadata matching on the exact same media set and also lacks built-in SSO. One of the biggest niceties of Plex is inviting people to join and they can just immediately login with Google.

I'm not saying Plex is better, and I'm not defending their recent enshittification. It's gotten worse, for sure. And I'm sure Jellyfin is great, but I haven't had time to put the effort in to fix the metadata issues or create accounts so my users can switch over.

It's unfortunate that Jellyfin is just slightly worse than Plex at pretty much everything. Playback is smooth, sure, but set up is harder, getting good metadata is harder, logging in is harder, etc.

The metadata one really put me off. I set up a Jellyfin instance with the exact same media set as my Plex instance, and it immediately started "recognizing" standard movies and shows as porn and hentai. I'm still going to push through and get it properly set up eventually, but even so, I'm not looking forward to manually managing accounts when people can just SSO with Plex.

Oh, I wasn't aware of that at all, my bad. Bazzite looks much more polished, as well.

~~I mean, if you really want it, HoloISO is almost the exact same thing, just without any support from Valve.~~

Edit: Looks like Bazzite is a much better option nowadays.

I highly discourage 1337x. They got caught not banning a user who intentionally uploaded malware. Forgive the reddit link, but there aren't a lot of piracy news sites.

God, that's sad. Don't get me wrong, I love Cane's, but I remember 10 years ago when their chicken wasn't anemic as shit.