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You can go to plex.tv to get started. To engage the Plex DVR feature you will need a supported tuner (I use a Hauppauge card) support.plex.tv/articles/225877427-supported-dvr-tuners-and-antennas/ and Plex Pass (which is available in a one time lifetime purchase option). The rest is a very easy setup, especially if you've used competing DVR products in the past. support.plex.tv/articles/225877347-live-tv-dvr/

@@cjcox awesome. One more question, how does the media server really do? Do I need one of all I want to do is record and watch on my PC? Or is that needed no matter what?

I have not tried a Windows VM on it, it's a bit too small footprint wise for that. I might give installing Office 2010 or later on it and let you know though. It will still be running Tumbleweed. Windows as the base OS on anything doesn't make sense to me anymore. Tumbleweed is a bleeding edge tested distribution of Linux. Doesn't concede (defeat) on anything.

Update, I did "try", but I mean the concept are "old" (trying to install old version of Office). Most of what I have on hand key wise is for the (now very very very old) concept of 64bit OS's. Anyway, all my attempts for 2013 and 2010 failed. I mean, I was able to use winetricks to successfully install the "online" download of 2013 for a 32bit wine, but, again, no key and even then, it seemed very unusable. YMMV with the following, but last time I did the "appearance" of a local 2013+ Office was using RDP applications, where the app was actually running on a Windows (somewhere). That sort of works ok, but with the limitations normally found with Window RDP (that being Windows is hampered arbitrarily on the desktop side to being a single user OS). Thus, if the Windows is being used, you can't just pop up an app somewhere else. You can argue the case that if the goal is to run "Windows only software", that maybe Windows has to be the OS of choice. Again, that's pretty backwards thinking, but valid for those stuck in the distant past. The idea of running very very very very very very very very old versions of Windows on anything is a really bad idea. So, apart from experimentation in isolation, I'd avoid it. So... I'm not necessarily "done" with trying the whole "MS "only" Office on Linux" in some sort of native manner thing.... but maybe I've got bigger fish to fry for now.

@@cjcox I replaced hdd with ssd via mini-sata to microsata adapter from ali-express and it works just fine with the cheapest ssd with a strange brand name Puskill 😀. Then I installed linux mint xcfe and now it can play full HD with no lags or freezes (which I experienced when installed windows 7). With big excel files 5 mb and bigger the laptop works slow - high latency and low responsiveness . But in general, you still can surf internet pretty comfortably if you don’t open many tabs.

@@cjcox i like its keyboard and a small lamp that lights on the keyboard at night.

No. This is OpenGL and sort of deprecated and without support for Windows or remote access. But still, it's fun to see this all working without partitioning of the GPU or dedication via passthru.

Good point. I think everyone should consider what "works well for them". I know some say always store "native", but sometimes, you don't really need that. I compress as well. Only in very specific cases (and sometimes just for testing) will I store native.

You're welcome. Of course, my video was mainly sticking to the Plex Pass feature of Plex DVR, but as far as OTA recording solutions with good EPG, it's the best out there right now and makes sense if you're already a person running a Plex server.

Usually that would have been more like mid-90's. As I mentioned by 1999, you may have had a Matrox and even doing some GLX, see a blast from my past here: www.ntlug.org/archive/tp/glx_ccox/glx.html

@cjcox ah indeed, fun stuff there :D I definitely remember GLX (edit: GLXGears, rather) being the "gold standard" (if you can call it that ) of the time to check if 3D acceleration was working under Linux :) I definitely recall reading about 3D gaming starting to be not only a possibility in Linux, but even being faster than windows (unsure if i read your article back then, or someone else pointing similar results, but i definitely remember it). I think by the early 2000s or so I was compiling Quake 2 from source after iD software released it, the Linux build was maintained by Icculus, if I recall? Nothing beat the feeling of playing Q2 under Linux back then :) For me personally, it was then that the switch flicked in my brain indicating "this is more than a toy, it's a real OS, and viable alternative to Windows" (queue the old memories of having to dual-boot into windows in order to perform certain tasks you couldn't reliably do otherwise)

Correct, but should be for OG networked Tablos, not just the 1st gen of those. Apart from the "weird" one off Tablo devices, this does cover the "main" devices sold by Tablo prior to the Scripps acquisition.

Custom Desktop -> /usr/bin/startplasma-x11

Piece of advice, DON'T - KDE will rearrange your desktop icons if you start up with a lower resolution with X2Go, it will happily PERMANENTLY rearrange your widgets to fit on the screen, sometimes even overlapping them and there's no way to prevent it so when you next startup KDE on the machine you remoted too, it's all screwed up. Stick with LXDE and XFCE - they aren't beautiful, but they're usable. You won't have any desktop effects with KDE either. I don't recommend trying with GNOME 3.0 either. Stick with a simple window manager. Remote desktop is for work anyhow and you can always throw up your X2GO session in one virtual desktop, and still have access to others on your local machine. Another thing you CAN do is on X2Go instead of selecting a desktop select "Single Application", and just startup a konsole, you might need to specify the full path on the local machine. From there you can launch anything from the command line. You might have varying luck with this. Once you close the konsole, all applications should also disconnect, and MAYBE you will be able to resume them on next connection. I've have varying degrees of luck with it.

UT2004, still on my desktop, I still play. Looks and plays well in 2024 (20 YEARS later). Linux ftw!

It's not even current state of the art. No "magic" required. Plain ole RX 5700XT running the open source driver only, using virt-manager to define Display Spice -> Type: Spice server, Listen type: None OpenGL: checked (should fill in a path that looks something like, 0000:34:00:0 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] (render) ). Then define Video Virtio: (toggle 3D Acceleration). Guest VM was running Tumbleweed latest and host is running OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 (up to date). This only works when running the virt-manager VM console local to the host. But still, pretty awesome. There's work (I think) to get virtio gpu handling for Windows guests, but have not tried that (I don't think it's quite ready, well, I think it's at the "build it yourself" stage). Edit: Also I have tried some game through Steam. Older things like Half Life 2, Portal, but the controls are too "wonky"... so, it works graphically, but the controls need work. I did recently buy the Deponia bundle, and it works fine on the VM. Also, all is Plasma X11 (sorry Wayland proponents)

My point is that it's not a priority (at all) and the only thing is frame blasting which requires fat low latency pipes. FreeNX had different goals and had a different transport. Xvnc would actually be the Xrdp side by side equivalent, and it's maintained. But both are doing pretty much the same thing (VNC style underneath). Of course, we could argue that at the time, FreeNX's competition might not have been VNC so much as just plain old X Client, which was/is dog awful slow. Anyhow, posted this so I could attach in response to recent video here: th-cam.com/video/Ly22ZKPGxXs/w-d-xo.html and some where asking for a "better" demo.

The advantage of X2Go is that it's extremely fast, but I don't think it works in Wayland, and besides, I think Wayland is dead on arrival. I was real exited about it when it was announced, back in 2008, 15 years ago. Seemed silly to be using the loopback interface to communicate locally, well, X11 doesn't do that anymore, it bypasses it and uses a direct frame buffer, but it's maintained because some programs do direct access to the loopback interface. VNC doesn't even COMPARE to X2Go although I would not recommend using either GNome or KDE with it - they just don't tend to play well, use LXDE or some other simpler desktop. You won't have 3d desktop effects anyhow though X2Go. X2Go is on part with MSTSC (i.e. RDP) in terms of speed. When working on a LAN, you can't even tell you're on a remote machine unless you fire of a video player in full screen.