I believe it’s a known bug where it might - every great once in a while - change the art anyway, but this is how it’s supposed to work.
I’ve managed plenty of libraries over the years, and setting a custom poster keeps it that way— again, except in rare cases where something bugs out. but this is how it’s supposed to work.
if you still experience weirdness, I recommend going to “Troubleshooting” under your server settings and running both “Optimize database” and “Clean Bundles"
your server has what it needs to run GNOME just fine. you might wish to disable some of the more fancy graphics animations, but they shouldn’t be a problem at all. they run fine for me on a much older system than yours.
but, if you really want to bare-bones it with a DE, XFCE or LXQt get the job done, but are pretty basic— to the point I find annoying, personally, but you do you. Most of your interaction will be through your web browser for Plex apps, and via the command line for everything else.
Edit: I’d love to keep helping you with your setup, but the thread is getting a bit long. How about we move this chat over to the c/Plex space on Matrix? Matrix is an open-source, federated messaging space like Discord. you can create an account and choose a client (I recommend Element) which you can run via app or webapp.
imagine mid-80s Apple with Steve Jobs constantly screaming at you after you’ve worked 75 hours without sleep, except you’re NOT working on anything revolutionary, you’re getting paid shit, and you’re practically alone in the office because everyone else got laid off. also, everyone on earth hates you except a select cadre of nazis who spend most of their time fellating Elon on the platform you’re barely able to keep running.
oh, this one’s easy: star with a live image to fiddle with first. I would recommend GNOME/GDE as your Desktop Environment (DE). you can choose another later (which is great), but that’s a basic on that’s most similar to what you’re used to. Odd that’s not in the list of options you listed… it’s by far the most common and usually the default…
but, yeah, start with a live DVD (great for a restore disk!) and play around to get acclimated. it’s also great to install from!
ok, I see. well, sorry for your rural troubles, and best of luck with your new solution. you might look into a micro/femtocell from your mobile provider to provide hi-speed data service as an alternative to hard-wired service!
keep in mind that sometimes Sonarr/Radarr will update/refresh files in the background when they find newer copies that better match your set file parameters. IE, if you have a download profile which accepts both x264 and x265-encoded files but prefers x265, it may download the x264 when first available and then a x265 copy when it become available later. or a Dolby 2.1 audio version initially and a Dolby Atmos copy later when it finds one.
this is compounded if your run Checkrr and it finds/replaces corrupted media files.
All this can happen (and does) in the background and can explain unexpected library updates.
btw, ripping your own media is a waste of time and resources unless you simple cannot find what you’re looking for via torrent. 999/1000 downloading something will take a tiny fraction of the time (and system resources) it will to rip it.
macOS is actually pretty awesome. lots of FOSS people don’t like it simply because of Apple and because of how Apple tends to be a bit overbearing when hit comes to how it likes to do things. macOS has limited customizability, for example, which is something linux users like to go bonkers with. I get it. but there are still ways to do what you want regardless. lots of hacks and stuff.
But it’s the most widely-used and most commercially-successful distribution of UNIX in the consumer space, and the only one still around in any meaningful way. Apple managed to bring UNIX to the masses and to scale it from smartwatches to servers where others failed for decades, all in one, unified ecosystem of software and hardware products. Yes, Apple’s control over that ecosystem is too much for some to bear on philosophical grounds, but those objections usually turn out to be mostly symbolic when put to practical tests.
The other main objection is that Apple products tend to be in the “premium” range of pricing and are “anti-consumer” in that they’re difficult or impossible to repair or upgrade. Those are valid criticisms, however they affect a very tiny sector of users, so make what you will of that.
Note: Linux, currently, cannot run on Macs with Apple Silicon processors. great efforts are underway to make linux compatible with the processor, and AFAIK, the linux kernel itself runs on the AS processors, but the project hasn’t gotten much farther than that, being stuck on untangling the display adapter or something. The effort is, however, ongoing and should, hopefully soon, see a fully-compatible AS linux kernel with compatible AS linux builds n the near future.
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aww, HUGS to you!