Does Plex Work on Linux?
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Plex is a free piece of software that allows you to organize your movies, TV shows, music and photos in one beautiful interface and stream those media files on your PC, tablet, phone, TV, Roku, etc on the network or over the Internet. Plex can be installed on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Windows and various NAS systems.

How do I use Plex on Linux?

macOS or Linux

  1. Open a Terminal window or your command prompt.
  2. Enter the following command (substituting the IP address of your server as appropriate): ssh ip.address.of.server -L 8888:localhost:32400.
  3. Open a browser window.
  4. The browser will connect to the server as if it were local and load Plex Web App.

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What OS is best for Plex?

Fedora 32 desktop is the best version for a Plex Media Server. This excellent distro has a Fedora Workstation and is aimed at developers. One may expect that this distro will not be accessible since its target is developers, but Fedora Workstation has a simple user interface due to the Gnome 3 desktop environment.

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