My wife consumes whatever media I throw at our Plex server and I’d like to stick with it (The tv’s + set top boxes/remote controls are all easy for her to use and stream Plex fine)
I’d grabbed an old work PC I replaced years ago, Windows 10, and tossed a Plex server on it and it’s worked for a long time but recently despite being used for NOTHING but Plex, its bloated itself like most Windows machines and I found Cortana taking 90% CPU (despite being disabled via registry) and some updates failing over and over.
I’d like to replace it (the software) but really no idea where to start, even the most helpful sites are just “use your favorite Unix then install Plex” or “Here are 56 perfect versions of Unix to install for your Plex server”
Honestly I use it for nothing except Plex, is there something easy enough I could look at?
Just a disclaimer I have never used Plex has I use Jellyfin.
For your firewall mint has a GUI for it. I’m not sure why your firewall is even turned on as it should be off by default.
Could be, dunno yet how to tell these things but the issue was a port was not open. Once opened the server was seen fine!