I am sad to see that Plex is not working to support Linux for their successor of PMP.
We’d much rather invest the effort on a cross-platform app with a best-in-class player engine under the hood, so as of today we’re taking our Windows app out of the store. https://www.plex.tv/blog/desktop-af/
An application for only Windows and Mac are not truly cross-platform unless you also make it for Linux. If the application was truly cross-platform it would be no issue to support Linux in addition to Windows and Mac.
Maybe we need to cancel our Plex subscriptions for Plex to give us Plex for Linux. Though I fear we are not many enough to pull it off.
Agreed, at a minimum they should make a git repository so that those of us (and people like knapsu) can build it under Linux and use it that way. That shouldn’t be very hard if they are already supporting Mac OS. It still doesn’t make up for the betrayal of abandoning TV layout for their HTPC users though.
It is baffling as to why this is not a release build. I can understand that Linux is difficult to target with so many distros and user configurations, but I think the target market for Plex would be something to take into consideration here.
A media player you run on your own hardware, just maybe some of the people who can set that up would be running a Linux desktop?
We are dropping Linux support for Plex Media Player
To be fair they never really did support PMP on Linux. They just made it buildable for us diehards at home that really wanted it under Linux. Now they are making even that impossible.
