u/Willing_Ebb7894

Recently swapped to cachyos and I'm trying to get jellyfin setup as it was back on my windows install more or less. I've gotten through the first time setup and configured my libraries with (afaik) properly mounted hdds inside a /media directory just for the drives. Accessing it via localhost:8096 works fine, accessing it via *[my ip]:*8096 works, but first prompts me with an "https only mode"(?) warning that I just ignored and it now seems to work fine.

I've tried my best to follow this guide for arch and I think I've done everything properly but the nginx stuff really lost me so I'm not 100%. Trying to connect via my phone gets a brief pause before failing, same on the windows pc on the lan. Putting in a junk ip by comparison has an immediate failure so clearly something is happening, I just cant figure out what.

Cheers in advance for any help. I'll add any further clarifications if I need to.

Edit:
Just remembered I also tried fiddling with the firewall settings assuming that was the cause, made rules allowing incoming+outgoing traffic for "Jellyfin(8096/TCP)". Dont know if this is affecting anything, I did this before I decided to look at guides because I had assumed it would work similar to windows, oops.

Also to be clear, I don't want this to be remotely accessible, maybe one day, but atm we have a sim card router and afaik that kinda prevents static ip stuff(idk mich about wan junk).

I've finally decided that continuing to put up with windows isn't in my best interests and I want to make the swap permanently on my main machine.

I'm not a complete beginner to linux. I've installed ubuntu a few times, particularly on older laptops to get more life out of them, but in those contexts I've almost always had weird hardware incompatability issues with wifi or bluetooth chips or some other weird bit of perripheral type nonsense simply not wanting to work.

I hope this won't be an issue on my desktop, built it myself, amd cpu and gpu, which I've heard plays nice with linux.

Going forwards however, I am not sure if I want to stick with ubuntu. I've always heard that it's generally the easiest and most broadly compatable with software, but more recently I've heard the odd complaint including some fuss about telemetry, which I think I would like to avoid. There's also apparently gen AI features being implemented in some distros which I would like to avoid, so knowing if a given distro has made a commitment against implementing such features would be a huge positive to me.

I have heard people say good things about fedora/red hat and debian as alternatives. Debian at least, I believe, is also very broadly compatable with alot of software. Granted, I am aware and willing to switch to foss programs for just about everything I do, maybe running a vm for the odd nichee application I find that only has an .exe.

I have heard of some distros which are renowned for their customisability and have large libraries of community made presets. This does spark some interest in me, but I cant say I'm rearing to make the change to arch just yet. Just a passing thing that if any particular distro aligns with my other requirements also happens to have very strong customisation, I would be quite happy.

Gaming is pretty important to me too, so perhaps bazite or another distro built on steamos might be the right go? I've used my partners steam deck a little bit and I do love how it controls. Granted, I wouldn't be able to get that experience with the trackpads as the new controller isn't even available to purchase in my country. Or maybe it would be the right idea to hold out til valve releases a first party steamos distro (which I think is planned but has yet to happen?).

I kinda know I dont want mint, I've used it before and it just rubbed me wrong and I had more hardware/software incompatability issues with it than ubuntu. Although accepting something with more problems is a compromise I may make.

Lastly, I would like any tips and tricks you have used / know of to make the transition as painless as possible. I have more or less accepted the fact that I will need to learn linux console commands for an awful lot of things as much as I may not want to and that will just be a fact of me using linux. I already know plenty of foss programs that I use somewhat regularly and will continue to use on linux. Any additional bits and pieces I might want to improve privacy or some best practices to follow to make sure I dont unintentionally make myself more vulnerable than I already was are welcome.

I intend to rip the bandaid off and full send linux, no dualbooting, maybee a vm if/when I find something I dont yet know a foss alternative for.

Cheers in advance!