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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm having some issues with my Plex's stability and was curious what the community thinks about their chosen OS and Plex.

~~(If there's a better site than SurveyMonkey for polls, let me know and I'll re-do it)~~

Edit: turns out SurveyMonkey can only show me the first 10 responses. I'll re-do this survey soon!

The results for those 10 was 3 Windows, 3 Linux, 2 MacOS, 1 NAS, 1 Proxmox. All stable except my answer.

But feel free to comment below what OS you run on, and whether you find it stable! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Docker in unRAID, zero stability issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another for Ubuntu, & via Docker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu 22.04 aswell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ubuntu 22.04 Server edition here. Very stable in my opinion. I even have a usb xbox tuner attached to an antenna.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Docker in Unraid. no issues with stability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Docker on Unraid

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Synology DSM7, Intel with hardware acceleration.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Docker in Unraid. no issues with instability.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian 12, LXC on proxmox, x64 system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same with me.. works great

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Synology NAS and Nvidia Shield TV, same content on both (NAS content).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch Linux!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently on Ubuntu Server, but I'll likely switch to Debian when I upgrade my server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I figured I should just get on the source distro.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu 22.04 with docker, no issues it's pretty barebones and easy to manage / update

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I run the snap version of Plex in an Ubuntu VM running in hyper-v on windows 11 pro. Unfortunately, my gaming computer and server are the same machine, and anti-cheat forces me to use windows as the host OS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

native server app on DSM 7 (synology ds918+)

its great for direct play, but when it starts having to transcode 4K x265 content the CPU can't always hack it. But yeah, if you're direct playing everything then it's not an issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On a windows VM. Never had stability issues. Also pass through a P400 for transcoding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TrueNas Core and TrueNas Scale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A Fedora Linux container on Proxmox. I have no stability issues really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian 11-12, few updates and a lot of stability

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Debian 11 container here on proxmox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been running Plex directly on Ubuntu for more than a decade. Setting up a Linux box takes some learning, but I've barely had to touch mine since I got it configured. It is very stable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu 22.04 base with a Plex docker container. ZFS as the file system on my host

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Running it on a Synology, and streaming through a Chromecast. It works great, some encoding issues sometimes and issues with subtitles, but other than that it’s fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Truenas Scale (Debian)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rocky as a proxmox guest. DVR library is local storage for performance reasons. All other libraries are NFS from my ds920.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

DietPi (debian)

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