After 14 years with Plex, I finally moved my video library to Jellyfin. Why rising costs, feature restrictions and digital ownership pushed me towards FOSS.
I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:
the worst UX that you could possibly imagine, with menu after menu arranged seemingly at random, and buttons doing different things at every level
functionality delivered via plugins, at least half of which do not work
directory scans failing seemingly at random, with the errors hidden away in log files that you have to shell in to retrieve
terrible documentation, inevitably consisting of forum pages about how it used to work a decade ago
It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.
I had Kodi installed for a few weeks as my television media front-end, but it has:
It may well have a huge amount of functionality, but configuring and using it is the exact opposite of slick. Have uninstalled in favour of KDE with VLC installed, and manipulated via the KDE Connect mobile app, which is somehow a much better big-screen experience.