I run k3s on my bare metal cluster and for a lab I think it is excellent. Gets the cluster up and running easily so you can learn about actual Kubernetes stuff.

Personally I run it on fedora coreos, but I would not recommend that for everyone. I would just use whatever distri you like. All the usual suspects will work perfectly.

That is absolutely true yes, I’m not sure you can even preview what you have downloaded in Pinchflat.

We use Jellyfin/Kodi for playback generally

I tried it alongside Pinchflat and ended up settling on Pinchflat.

Why? I’m not going to say TA is bad, it worked well, but Pinchflat’s logic works better for me. Also, I was using TA with an existing Elastic search cluster. When I switched my logs to Loki/Garage I decided not to keep the ES cluster around just for TA.