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GFN is not for “hardcore gamers”. Well… at least not until recently (more on that).

It is more for the people who might mostly play older titles but want to experience the newest hotness. That 1070 has zero problems with all the indie games but you have heard that Clair Obscur is REAL good and you want high fidelity toesy woesies. Or maybe you mostly just play Madden and Call of Duty every year and don’t want to spend the money on a new computer (… assuming you play either on PC).

And it is nVidia so their linux support is a shitshow, but I was personally VERY tempted to try GFN when Dragon’s Dogma 2 was shitting the bed endlessly at launch. Ended up buying a new graphics card instead which… has somehow turned out to be a good decision?

But if you are the kind of person who upgrades every 5-8 years and cares about high fidelity gaming? You don’t need this.

… Assuming you upgraded in 2024. Because now EVERYTHING costs an arm and a leg and just gets worse and worse by the week.

Like, imagine buying a wagyu beef but only owning a microwave? So you rent a kitchen?

Change that to a nice 2 inch bone-in ribeye. Actually don’t, since that is also best cooked on a stove. But let’s move past that.

It is not that you don’t have a kitchen. It is that you don’t have a grill or a range hood (ooh, that actually works). So you rent a grill for the weekend.

And… that isn’t too dissimilar from people who get gym memberships so they can go climbing (because they don’t live in an area where they can easily do it outdoors) or because they don’t want to buy expensive gear.

And… honestly? A couple years back I had to help emergency cater a friend’s wedding (it was a whole thing). I… would totally pay money to get access to that kitchen a few times a year. Like… holy shit was it amazing.

Perhaps Mozilla doesn’t quite fit into this category,

Then don’t fucking compare it to rape

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MAYBE don’t trivialize rape by comparing a software you don’t like to… rape.

Because Jellyfin et al are all still very much “open source projects” in terms of UI/UX and it is still “missing” so many features.

For me? The big reasons why I just use plex boil down to:

1. Maybe 80% of the time, I can cache an episode or a movie locally on my tablet when I am going on travel. This is great if I am doing a rewatch of something or don’t super care about The Experience and just want to watch the next few episodes of a show in the evening. With Plex, this is trivial. With SOME of the third party jellyfin apps, this can be sort of worked around but then becomes a hassle to sync watch statistics (which episodes were watched or even where I left off because a buddy wanted to go out for drinks).
2. Remote watching is similarly a mess. Plex has pretty okay-good systems to treat my home server as a “cloud” resource with a single forwarded port. While even that is very questionable security wise, Jellyfin is still “figure it out yourself”. Which can be done with setting up a vpn or using Tailscale but adds additional complexities.
3. Plenty of other “quirks” along similar lines

My personal opinion? For something that only “tech savvy” people are using more or less locally, Jellyfin is fine. For something that “just works”? There is no competition with Plex. And considering how many of the Jellyfin workarounds end up being “just download a copy of the file locally and watch it in VLC”… why would I use Jellyfin at all in that case when I could otherwise just mount a samba share or use Kodi (that is the latest incarnation of XBMC or whatever the samba share frontend we all used to watch porn on our playstations was, right?).