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Everyone here who has used Plex has had fuck ups. Between finding corrupt movie files, Plex messing up meta data, or forgetting where I am in a movie (and between multiple devices this is especially bad); my list of Plex/xbmc fuck ups would far outpace any issues I have with the services.
In general most of the streaming services work just fine and have most features you need.
The biggest issue by far is the need for $140 in streaming services to get what you want. I'm probably just going back to cable IMO.
Idk if I’m just lucky, but I’ve been running Plex on Linux for years without any major issue. Occasionally I had to hit things with a chmod, but that stopped being an issue after I changed a setting in qbittorrent, and that isn’t really Plex’s fault.
Rarely, if it is transcoding something and I pause for a long time, I may have to stop it and play it again to get the transcoder running again. It is a very minor issue that I barely ever think about unless I’m traveling.
Does it run differently on Windows or something?
Not really. I've run Plex for years now, and it's still infinitely better than the PS3 Media Server we ran before. Sometimes it crashes but that's always been resolved by a quick reboot. I have more issues with my Nvidia Shield than with Plex itself.