Agree. I’m still not doing proper backups on my homelab but this is what i’m gonna focus on next. OP has a good NAS setup and IMHO the focus should be on backing up the DB for later restoration (if there’s the need because it might never happen) and keep the DB on the most powerful CPU and quickest disk.

If you liked Ormachy then I think you’ll feel very comfortable with CachyOS + Sway. (I can’t in good conscience recommend hyprland anymore)
The CachyOS team deliver sane configuration files to start a desktop. Then delve into how to setup greeters and lock apps, it’s usually small changes in each config file with your own images and setup.

Not opensource

Edit: Apologies for my comment. I meant to say that it still doesn’t change the fact that Windows is not opensource.

For everyone that doesn’t want YT
https://tilvids.com/w/bzFBCM7M5oT44tj7uAZQpC

I have formal education, from 1997, which serves nothing for the kind of technologies we’re using now. Even though I work in IT (call center) I’ve had to read a lot on networking to make sense of what I wanted to achieve. I also don’t know anyone else in my office that does this so I’ve been relying on online communities and my failures. I’ve learned so much by failing.

You could try this
https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

I use Jellyfin but never even thought about it for streaming music.
Navidrome and Symfonium is my choice as well and I could not be happier. I really appreciate that the team behind Navidrome still works on it but it 100% serves my purpose right now.

Accessing from the webpage, if you go to “Settings” > “Home” you can change the sections
This is what i have. “Recently Added Media” shows new additions for each of the libraries you have setup.

I also recommend Wholphin, it’s faster and has better UI than the official Jellyfin app

I just did this 2 days ago and it worked as expected

Proxmox really helped in improving my homelab needs and I only really have about 10 apps hosted.

Wow. Just finished setting it up and tagged 2 álbuns. From slskd to Picard to Navidrome. This really makes my life easier.
Thank you very much kind stranger!!!

That makes a lot of sense and I also like the idea of having apps on the browser. I might take your approach to create a VM and spin it up whenever I need it. Thx.

Why docker though? The desktop app is available on all OS’s.

My experience is similar to a lot of people here. I see that we’ve all had our hurdles over the decades while moving OS’s and I’ve used many of the apps mentioned here (Windows/Linux). I couple of years ago i decide to stream my music because i was already into self-hosting and i really needed to properly tag my music for whatever server app I would use.
I always had my music structured by folder, i was using desktop apps for playback so it kinda worked for me. But i wanted to have better tagging. I had already used kid3 and picard but it lacked automation so I used beets for the albums on my collection (about 12K of songs). It wasn’t perfect but the software is not blame and it was a great way to tag automatically and move files for a consistent folder structure to match my needs.
Right now, since i don’t add music all the time ( a couple per week) i mainly stick to picard to tag new albums. it has 3 actions to manage the files on disk (move, rename, tag), I have script rules for naming files (if required) and i use the ReplayGain plugin. But I also have to point out that the learning curve of picard is rather high, the UI is a mess and it took me a really long time to understand how it works or where the options are.
After trying airsonic for a while i moved to Navidrome and have been using symfonium (android) and Feishin (desktop). It’s the best experience I’ve had since i started listening to music on my pc (199…6/7).
Regarding the source files, it lives on a disk and is backed up to another disk, managed on openmediavault.

Just thought I’d also comment that beets does not have a metadata index, it relies on Musicbrainz for metadata fetching. There are also plugins for other services like Bandcamp or Spotify.

You can use the https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.html plugin to write genres

IT worker, close to 50 years old, only ever could afford low-mid range tech, gamer. Been using windows for over 30 years and linux for 8. Linux works better than windows and it allowed me to improve my tech skills beyond a desktop machine.

This is how I started.
I have a dynamic IP and a router provided by my ISP. IP assignations, DHCP, are managed by the router. I went with DuckDNS for a free DNS service. Select a name and you get a myname.duckdns.org that you need to assign to your dynamic IP. duckdns has instructions to create a cronjob to update your dynamic IP on duckdns.org. (Routers come in all shapes and configs, chances are that this won’t work for most people) On the router, I assigned a static IP to the server hosting Jellyfin, in case of a reboot Jellyfin would always have the same IP. On the Ports page I opened up the default port for Jellyfin at that IP. I could then access Jellyfin outside of my local network using myname.duckdns.org:1234
This is not what I have right now, but it helped my get started.

Don’t uninstall it before you’ve tested cosmic. Just select the Desktop you want to login with, make it default. When you’re comfortable with it, you can think about removing Plasma.

Many have already mentioned tools that I also use and appreciate immensely.
My pick is Steam. I’ve picked up on gaming in the past 2 years and it’s very stable right now. Every game that I have interest in just works, I can install games, including early access or demos without looking at the compatibility or the release date. The download speeds of games are high (imho at least where I’m located, and compared with a PS5). My partner is a heavy gamer and has to yet find a game that doesn’t work on her machine.