# Plex Arcade and Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Tags:** arcade-gaming\ **Created:** [January 29, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407 "2021-01-29T20:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smithse79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@smithse79](https://forums.plex.tv/u/smithse79)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/1 "2021-01-29T20:36:57Z")
Is Linux server support planned? My Plex is running on Centos after moving it from Windows a few years ago. Arcade seems fun, but I don’t really want to move back to Windows ---
**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/2 "2021-01-29T21:15:09Z")
The blog post explains this, if you can get past all the annoying hype. Plex is partnering with a company called Parsec, and Parsec only works on Windows and Mac: [https://www.plex.tv/blog/game-on-a-plex-blog-story/](https://www.plex.tv/blog/game-on-a-plex-blog-story/) ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/3 "2021-01-29T21:16:31Z")
depends on whether Parsec supports it. many of our employees on linux have spun up a windows vm, mapped video card through and exported a game library like that. ---
**Author:** ![siddharthrocks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/siddharthrocks/32/229715_2.png) [@siddharthrocks](https://forums.plex.tv/u/siddharthrocks)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/4 "2021-02-25T02:07:06Z")
Well how ? Would love to do it that way if possible ? Any guidance Elan ? ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/5 "2021-02-25T02:19:35Z")
i haven’t tried myself but it shouldn’t be that tricky to get a windows VM running. search around on here and you’ll probably find guidance 😅 ---
**Author:** ![siddharthrocks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/siddharthrocks/32/229715_2.png) [@siddharthrocks](https://forums.plex.tv/u/siddharthrocks)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/6 "2021-02-25T02:31:29Z")
😅 I certainly know how to create VM. I thought there was some ingenious way to just have the arcade service part of an existing plex server vs spinning a new server and using it that way 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/7 "2021-02-25T03:30:49Z")
oh i’m sorry! you need to have a separate windows server running. the plex user interface makes it pretty seamless to combine content across servers on the sidebar. ---
**Author:** ![SalmonSays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@SalmonSays](https://forums.plex.tv/u/SalmonSays)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/8 "2021-02-28T02:32:14Z")
“Seamless” is a stretch. It’s not _hugely_ inconvenient, but running multiple instances clutters up the sidebar and makes navigation more confusing than it has to be- especially for newer Plex users that already have a hard time distinguishing between free Plex hosted content and content hosted on a user server. On the note of the original post, Parsec claims to support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on their support site: [Linux - Ubuntu 18.04 – Parsec](https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/115002699032-Linux-Ubuntu-18-04) ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 2:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/9 "2021-02-28T02:45:51Z")
> [@SalmonSays](#): > > “Seamless” is a stretch. It’s not _hugely_ inconvenient, but running multiple instances clutters up the sidebar and makes navigation more confusing than it has to be- I’m not sure how it clutters up the sidebar, it’s a matter of having Games coming from a different server. Yes, a bit trickier to set up the first time, but after that the sidebar is no more cluttered. > [@SalmonSays](#): > > Parsec claims to support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on their support site Not for the hosting part. ---
**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/10 "2021-02-28T15:21:08Z")
> [@SalmonSays](#): > > On the note of the original post, Parsec claims to support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on their support site: [Linux - Ubuntu 18.04 – Parsec](https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/115002699032-Linux-Ubuntu-18-04) [https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/360055902251-Operating-System-Support-Matrix](https://support.parsec.app/hc/en-us/articles/360055902251-Operating-System-Support-Matrix) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 3:21pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-arcade-and-linux/684407/11 "2021-05-29T15:21:40Z")
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