[Maursault]

Plex requires setting up libraries of media, such as a pictures library, a music library, etc., which is annoying to say the least. Whether it is easy is not the point, the fact that it requires installing it and configuring it when Apache2 will functionally do everything Plex can without consolidating files, which leads to duplicates and eating up storage space.

[dchuk]

Apache and Plex are nowhere near comparable software, what on earth are you talking about

[Maursault]

You are mistaken. Plex is really just a dedicated web server with a bunch of annoying feature creep.

[notmyprb]

Plex requires me to install Docker (which I use elsewhere so would install anyway) and docker compose -f file with my entire media setup

We could endlessly debate which cognitive model is best but you know, that’s stupid… because there is only one…

…Packaged executables should die off. I want to compose electron state in a machine not some randos config formats and syntax art.

I don’t understand Apache OR Plex (or nginx or Docker, etc). Would prefer logic simply be modeled in open code libs I can list in a dep file and run; but software _products_ whether open like Apache or closed like Plex, with a bunch of opinions on acceptable UX/CX are foisted on me by Apache or Plex devs.

I’m just as sick of learning one asinine tribal jargon after as I am the arguments about which tribal jargon is superior!

Bring on the AI chips that abstract away software. Bleh what a trashy gossip fueled industry.

[justinclift]

> Whether it is easy is not the point

That's a wrong assumption. For many (most?) users of Plex, that's pretty much the entire point. :)

Try it out yourself, and then see what you reckon it would take to set up Apache to match Plex's functionality. It'll take significant effort, if it's even capable.

[ciwolsey]

Apache won't automatically trancode your 4k videos for lower resolution devices

[Maursault]

Automatic transcoding is the last thing I'd want wasting processor cycles.