Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since - the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1], - p

Also, I may or may not rip the Blu-Ray media to my external HDD, since - the BR-enabled player software ("Cyberlink something " Windows-only) is a POS[1], - playing BR directly on Linux is not a fun experience to get working (fucking DRM) - not having to search through a cupboard of boxes for the disk I want to watch (convenience) - not being arbitrarily restricted to 720p or less on streaming platforms ( because I have the audacity run Linux ) even for movies/series I would "buy in HD" - etc. pp. [1] From what I remember from using that software years ago: extremely laggy interface, audio volume slider does basically nothing above the "2%" setting where the sound will just be so loud it nearly blows your eardrums (even with Windows audio setting for that program at ~10%), basically no useful keybindings apart from <SPACE>, putting the popout menu on the screen to get more controls almost always locked the program up for >20 seconds, the software had giant ad banners for the other garbage made by that company, etc. pp.