They’re using Plex for friends and JF for themselves, if you read the comment you replied to.

This sort of thing is deeply distro dependent. Pop_OS and Linux Mint handle Nvidia drivers pretty seamlessly, for instance

Not sure what the situation is on the NVIDIA side

Nvidia’s proprietary Linux drivers are effectively equal to their Windows drivers

Ahh, okay. I know Cinnamon shows the song that’s playing if you click the little speaker in the toolbar to adjust the audio slider with the mouse. IDK if there’s a setting to make it show on the little pop-up thing in your photo, not sure if that one has options. Like the other commenter said, I’d check in the Mint forums or discord. Could be there’s a theme that has it already

Which Linux distro are you using? What’s your Desktop Environment?

On Linux Mint with Cinnamon there’s a very similar popup to what you described if you open the volume slider from the toolbar in the lower right.

I did say it varies and sometimes the Windows build runs better than the Linux build depending on optimization

Linux Native builds generally have better performance than Windows builds running on Windows. That’s what I was comparing between

These are solid sources to cite, but for the record I was talking about a Linux native build vs a Windows build running under Proton, not a Windows build running in Windows vs running in Proton. Linux is a more efficient OS and well-optimized builds made for it can really fly.

Yes. There are some games where the Linux-specific bugs don’t get fixed and it’s better to just run the Windows version thru Proton and take like a 10-20% performance hit so it runs with more stability.

Sometimes the Windows versions just run better than the Linux build because of bad optimization on the Linux build of a given game, as well (OpenGL vs Vulkan drivers, etc etc)

They don’t share dependencies with the base system, but they do share dependencies with each other, so long as those dependencies are at the same version, which most of them are because flatpaks generally stay quite up to date.

One flatpak uses a lot of extra disk space, but for each additional flatpak you add to a system the disk space difference is much smaller because they share dependencies. When it’s system-wide for all user-installed packages, the difference is quite small.

I don’t have backups, but I do have a 14TB parity drive in the DAS, using SnapRAID to update it nightly.

The transfer speed of the USB connection is higher than my ethernet speed, so it never bottlenecks me.

I use an M1 Mac Mini running Asahi Linux with a USB 3.0 4-bay enclosure. Works great so far.

Generally the app is better. Compatible with more container formats, audio formats (surround sound, Dolby digital, etc), and has hardware supported decoding for h265 video in addition to h264.

At least in the case of a Jellyfin server, you can download media locally when you know you’ll be without internet

Lol, totally fair

But they could keep those limits in place and crowdsource bandwidth capacity now using torrents of rompacks

Their initial point was that the name “The Great War” aged like milk because WWII was bigger, not that any people thought it was good

This is sad, not funny

Classic