Naah bro, teams is trash resource hog. What you are saying is essentially ‘it works on my computer’.

Checkout www.wiby.org 😏

Lemmy is working though. What else do we need?

I have an ancient Samsung. Its going to die soon. I don’t think I can get a pixel here. What are my options, coz I also hate apple?

Ewwwwwwwww

Ruh roh. Too late though.

Friendship ended with Firefox,❎ Librewolf is my new best friend. ✅

Pi-NAS = rpi4 2gb + qnap tr4 USB enclosure + open media vault

Woohoo!

Pihole also let’s you install unbound. Your own recursive resolver. So you don’t have to rely on google or quad9 etc.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

<an eternity later…> Yo yo OP! Here is my sample Preferences.xml, I have nulled out the fields you will need to fill up from the windows registry. After this I still had to reshare the libraries with my friends, unsure which step I botched, but that was easy to re-do.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Preferences
OldestPreviousVersion="1.18.3.2156-349e9837e"
MachineIdentifier="####################"
ProcessedMachineIdentifier="####################"
AnonymousMachineIdentifier="####################"
MetricsEpoch="1"
AcceptedEULA="1"
PublishServerOnPlexOnlineKey="1"
PlexOnlineToken="####################"
PlexOnlineUsername="####################"
PlexOnlineMail="####################"
LastAutomaticMappedPort="0"
CertificateVersion="3"
PubSubServer="####################"
PubSubServerRegion="fmt"
PubSubServerPing="485"
LanguageInCloud="1"
FriendlyName="####################"
TranscodeCountLimit="3"
TranscoderQuality="0"
TranscoderH264BackgroundPreset="medium"
ButlerUpdateChannel="0"
DlnaEnabled="0"
CinemaTrailersFromTheater="1"
CinemaTrailersType="0"
WanPerUserStreamCount="2"
LanNetworksBandwidth=""
allowedNetworks="192.168.1.0/24"
customConnections=""
ManualPortMappingMode="1"
ManualPortMappingPort="####################"
FSEventLibraryPartialScanEnabled="0"
FSEventLibraryUpdatesEnabled="0"
GenerateBIFBehavior="never"
OnDeckWindow="52"
ScannerLowPriority="0"
ScheduledLibraryUpdateInterval="86400"
ScheduledLibraryUpdatesEnabled="1"
watchMusicSections="1"
CloudSyncNeedsUpdate="0"
ButlerTaskRefreshLibraries="1"
MinutesAllowedPaused="30"
DlnaReportTimeline="0"
ButlerEndHour="7"
ButlerStartHour="3"
PlexOnlineHome="0"
DvrIncrementalEpgLoader="0"
EnableIPv6="0"
WebHooksEnabled="0"
CinemaTrailersPrerollID=""
TranscoderCanOnlyRemuxVideo="0"
PushNotificationsEnabled="0"
LogVerbose="0"
MergedRecentlyAdded="0"
ButlerTaskCleanOldBundles="1"
ButlerTaskCleanOldCacheFiles="1"
ButlerTaskDeepMediaAnalysis="1"
ButlerTaskGenerateAutoTags="0"
ButlerTaskOptimizeDatabase="1"
ButlerTaskRefreshLocalMedia="1"
ButlerTaskRefreshPeriodicMetadata="1"
ButlerTaskReverseGeocode="0"
ButlerTaskUpgradeMediaAnalysis="1"
GenerateChapterThumbBehavior="never"
GenerateIntroMarkerBehavior="never"
LoudnessAnalysisBehavior="never"
MusicAnalysisBehavior="never"
WanTotalMaxUploadRate="20000"
autoEmptyTrash="1"
GlobalMusicVideoPathMigrated="1"
CertificateUUID="####################"
secureConnections="1"
DatabaseCacheSize="4000"
ButlerTaskBackupDatabase="1"
customCertificatePath=""
PreferredNetworkInterface="eno1"
CinemaTrailersFromBluRay="1"
ButlerDatabaseBackupPath="/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases"
sendCrashReports="1"
HardwareDevicePath="####################"/>

On the phone right now, but i did this last month OP.

First of all make sure to keep a backup of the db. Normally Plex does this for you every few days in the db folder. (From your old windows install)

The missing ingredient most likely is converting all the windows registry entries into preferences.xml

There was a reddit post where some one had posted a sample XML. I repopulated it with all the settings from the windows registry export. If you can’t find the post then I can post mine here in the morning.

Also had to create a plex user and group and chown it to all the media. I am a new Linux user so had to fuck around a lot coz of Fedoras SELinux file perms.