Not a Plex user but I switched from Kodi because I've always hated Kodi's UI, and just suffered it for lack of anything better (no, alternative skins don't help

Not a Plex user but I switched from Kodi because I've always hated Kodi's UI, and just suffered it for lack of anything better (no, alternative skins don't help, both because most of them are half-broken, and because most of what I dislike seems to be baked into the essential structure of their UI). Gone back and forth between it and just running a simple desktop with VLC connected to a TV, for many years. Happy Jellyfin user for... oh, two or three years now. I use it with the Roku app, and sometimes in a browser. It's got some rough edges, but nothing like Kodi. One thing I really like is that I can just run it directly on my file server. An absolute breeze to get it running in Docker. I'm a very lazy sysadmin when I'm on my own time, so I've even been relying on Docker to handle restarts and such—didn't touch Systemd at all. This isn't exactly best practice but I get it "for free" and it's yet to fail. If it does, well, it's not like it's a big deal. Kodi samba shares to play remote media have always sucked to set up, but this instead provides an API for clients to browse and then stream one video remotely—the clients don't need any form of actual access to the files (I think there are ways to set Kodi up like that, too, so you've got it two places and one's just playing media from the other, but the last thing I wanted was even more complexity in my Kodi set-up and config process) Being able to hop on a browser anywhere and edit config and media metadata is so very much nicer than trying to do it on a TV. The in-browser UI's also pretty damn good for watching stuff. I haven't tried it, but I understand there's a plugin for Kodi that lets you play your Jellyfin library through it. If I ever set up Kodi again, for some reason, that's exactly what I'll do. No "native" file access in Kodi, just a thin frontend for Jellyfin. Somewhere on my long list of shit I'll never actually get around to doing is writing a Jellyfin browser & player "core" for Retroarch. Now that would be perfect. [EDIT] Oh, I like its account management way better than Kodi's, too. Very easy to configure (through the browser, like nearly everything else). My kids have access to one set of content, my wife and I each have an account with access to everything, so our "watched" statuses don't interfere for stuff we watch on our own time. It's great.