My wife consumes whatever media I throw at our Plex server and I’d like to stick with it (The tv’s + set top boxes/remote controls are all easy for her to use and stream Plex fine)
I’d grabbed an old work PC I replaced years ago, Windows 10, and tossed a Plex server on it and it’s worked for a long time but recently despite being used for NOTHING but Plex, its bloated itself like most Windows machines and I found Cortana taking 90% CPU (despite being disabled via registry) and some updates failing over and over.
I’d like to replace it (the software) but really no idea where to start, even the most helpful sites are just “use your favorite Unix then install Plex” or “Here are 56 perfect versions of Unix to install for your Plex server”
Honestly I use it for nothing except Plex, is there something easy enough I could look at?
I just got into self-hosting about a week ago and started by getting a small beelink s12 mini. Since you have an old pc you don’t need to worry about hardware for now.
To get going with the software I followed this (https://lemmy.world/post/6542476) lemmy post in the beginning. It took me a couple of evenings to understand some basic concepts and after getting everything going I found the recommdation for https://yams.media/. So I wiped everything (because I decided to not encrypt the system and to go with Ubuntu 22.04.03 LTS instead of 23.10) and was supprised how quickly I had yams running again.
So just follow the guide and ask here or on the yams discord if you have any questions during the installation.
Check the compatibility with Linux but I also used Ubuntu with very little problem. It works flawlessly for me. I had no experience with Linux before this and was able to set it up with some googling and Asking ChatGPT for some useful commands. It was a fun project. The *arr suite is great.
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I just got into self-hosting about a week ago and started by getting a small beelink s12 mini. Since you have an old pc you don’t need to worry about hardware for now.
To get going with the software I followed this (https://lemmy.world/post/6542476) lemmy post in the beginning. It took me a couple of evenings to understand some basic concepts and after getting everything going I found the recommdation for https://yams.media/. So I wiped everything (because I decided to not encrypt the system and to go with Ubuntu 22.04.03 LTS instead of 23.10) and was supprised how quickly I had yams running again.
So just follow the guide and ask here or on the yams discord if you have any questions during the installation.
Check the compatibility with Linux but I also used Ubuntu with very little problem. It works flawlessly for me. I had no experience with Linux before this and was able to set it up with some googling and Asking ChatGPT for some useful commands. It was a fun project. The *arr suite is great.