Plex does NOT have an app that works perfectly on Linux. PMP does not support Sync, which renders it nearly useless to me.
I am an over the road truck driver, and I have a low power, small form factor Linux machine that runs PMP quite well… provided I have a good WiFi connection. However, that is rare. At your typical truck stop, you have dozens of people trying to use the Internet. On a good night, I might get 1.5 Mbps. Other nights I may get a third of that. Sync would make that a non-issue.
Yes, I do have a Windows laptop, and I have the Windows player on it, but it doesn’t have drive space for more than a half dozen episodes.
I have to agree that PMP is not going to be maintainable for much longer. I, myself, have authored several patches on the Arch Linux AUR package to keep things working as Qt and mpv continue to upgrade. I’ve offered these patches up to the PMP github repository as pull requests, but we’re not seeing any activity there anymore.
The thoroughly aggravating part about all this is that the stack for the current Plex for Windows is almost identical to PMP, in that it’s built on Plex Web, Qt (a platform that is intrinsically designed to be multi-platform) and mpv. All of this works quite well on Linux.
