Weird that 996 is on the list, as the point of them using GitHub is to use it as durable forum software, not as a software project issue board like the other items on this list.

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I mean, that’s probably part of the point

Ah yes, the 7h of troubleshooting why I can’t get the easiest distro to install on my laptop only to find out it’s installer has a bug with my specific hardware and firmware that gets it all cocked up.

This is a dumb meme.

I have as much fiddling to do with a Linux install as I do with a Windows install. The difference being that windows tends to “just work”, and then I have to declaw it. While Linux tends to “sometimes work” and I then need to add stuff in.

I mean, screw performance. You can get away with a lot of shitty performance and still have a completely functional application. However, the kind of slop that happens around module boundaries that turns your codebase into a giant pile of workarounds and hacks really sucks.

And AI is particularly bad at this, as AI almost always prefers to work around a problem or do everything it can to meet the plan the user approved, even if that plan meets reality, it has problems. Which tends to lead to cascading misalignment with intentions and cascading infrastructure and architectural technical debt.

All of which culminate in less stable software, lower likelihood of long-term support of that software, and worse performance.

None of this actually proves that they aren’t writing slop. It just proves that the slop that they’ve written passes your tests.

TIL!

Awkwardly, I find that the largest memory pressure tends to come from a particular web page that continually gobbles up more memory the longer it is open.

There’s always one of these somewhere, and I’m bad at closing tabs. I usually notice pretty quickly when I come back to my computer. As soon as we start hitting page filing, since everything is stuttering and slow, but if it goes overnight, it can literally be 15 to 20 minutes before the system is responsive again after I kill the offending process.

Whereas on my work device, which is Windows, I usually might not even notice until I’ve maxed out my page file, which can be 64 or 128 GB depending on the device. And even then, I only notice because file operations start getting slow because the SSD is being thrashed. Killing the offending process results in responsiveness usually within a few seconds and a full clear out of the page file in a couple minutes.

The explanations that I’ve gotten from another commenter make a lot of sense. That Windows has just always had to deal with high memory pressures, so has been forced to mature in that sense. It is rather odd that Linux is behind on this, though, given its overwhelming representation in headless environments

Thank you for thoughtfully engaging. I appreciate your knowledge.

It also depends on what you mean by worse than Linux. A lot of the criteria that you’re evaluating definitely have Linux as better than Windows, but Windows is better than Linux in other ways that I notice on a day-to-day basis when I’m switching between the two.

Performance under memory pressure is the biggest one, I think. I don’t know why, but Windows handles extreme memory pressure and heavy page filing incredibly gracefully, whereas any Linux device I’ve used, and Macs, seems to stutter, slow down, and really struggle under memory pressure, even when there is superior hardware involved. I usually have to wait several minutes before my daily Linux driver recovers from heavy page filing, whereas it’s usually just a couple of seconds with my Windows box.

Boot polish and butt paste.

Name-calling like children do isn’t going to meme this better.

I suppose step one would be to first understand the name and spelling of the business you are trying to make…

That didn’t take long.

Inevitably?

My friend, the MAJORITY of the comments will be unhelpful Linux snarks.

Exposed endpoints that have no authentication and various other things like that.

It’s application level security issues.

If there is an older collation here https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Yes for yourself on a device that supports it but that doesn’t address what my post stated.

The devices that I listed in my post are still going to run to the same problem in that sense that you’re not going to be able to run tailscale on them either.

It is incredibly difficult to get jelljfin ypen into your friends or your parents or grandparents house without considerable setup and maintenance over time.

And effectively none of the Jellyfin clients support this…

So that’s not going to work anyways on your friend’s TV or their Xbox or their Roku or something else like that.

Problem is access outside your home for family and friends.

There are serious security gaps that make it a non starter to expose to the internet.

I’ve been using Jellyfin ever since they forked out of Emby, and honestly, it’s the biggest complaint that I have. It is incredibly difficult to make it available to friends and family who are on various devices, networks, so on and so forth.

Whereas Plex “just works.”

I think a statistic I saw recently was that nearly 50% of American consumer spending is attributed to the top 10% of consumers.

Which would largely indicate that it doesn’t matter because those who have the money will continue to spend it and those that don’t will continue to get poorer.

It’s a contrived example.

This isn’t hard to understand