I wanted to switch over to linux to more easily manage the plex server as well as my other services, but online people keep saying there are features for PMS Windows that are not supported on PMS for Linux, is there any list where I can see exactly what those are?
My use case is personal use and local media only, no channels or etc. Will anything change for any clients e.g phone/tv/plex app for windows? Will they be missing any features they had before while the Server itself was on Windows?
Thank you for the time, hope someone can help me understand this better!
I’m not aware of any actual restrictions. If anything, the Linux server seems to be a bit more flexible as it’ll by default run as-a-service (for which you need to spend quite some effort on Windows, giving you other limitations).
Only recommendation is for you to have some basic knowledge of how to operate a Linux (primarily when it comes to mounting drives and properly managing permissions).
Edit: did your sources give you any specific examples of what PMS on Linux cannot do or are those mere rumors?
I was just searching online and on the forums for disadvantages and any issues before starting to transfer my data and change the filesystem of the drives and found quite a few people(10+ blogs, forum threads, the likes) saying that new features take a long time to be added, some specific things I can remember without digging through the history are webkit or silverlight not being supported on Linux, though I’m not sure how plex uses this.
There’s no hardware issue, I want to switch to linux to more easily manage my services and servers in general as everything else is on linux and the plex machine is the odd one out. Managing windows-linux permissions with samba shares is annoying.
From what you both said I’d assume I’m not going to miss out on anything. All my files are local, and I am not using any plugins, though I did want to try the youtube agent for archival purposes, would that have any issues in working?
Also, would there be a way to transfer the user information, watched/unwatched & etc over to the linux server? Please throw docs at me if that already exists and I’m just blind
Thanks for your time and all the useful answers so far!
Webkit might be relevant to some degree for players – not for the server. Silverlight shouldn’t be used anyway… but maybe that’s just my personal point of view
Not even windows supports silverlight anymore, lol
I recently made the switch from PMS on windows to linux. The only setback I’ve found is the auto update doesn’t work. But there are scripts out there that can run as a cron job.
I decided to make the switch for the transcoding support of HDR using my Quadro 4000
To put this in context… you can configure your system to automatically update the PMS for the public releases. Your comment is correct with regards to any non-public releases (though that can be automated using various community scripts, if you feel the need)
