YouTube ReVanced gets you completely adfree, configurably de-shittified Youtube with sponsorblock on your phone. (And Youtube Music ReVanced is premium YT music, for free, of course also without ads.)
And Smarttube Next does the same thing on Android TVs, FireTV, and probably some others I haven't used.
Do you seriously think advertisers buy each user's data individually, and sometimes Google goes "oh hey guys just a heads up, that individual is using an ad blocker 👍🏼"?
What are you talking about. First time I set it up, had it running on my local network in less than 5 minutes. 5 more minutes for external (granted, already had the infrastructure for that in place).
Then maybe 20min going through the settings to personalize my account? And maybe another 20min looking if there are any plugins I wanted to use.
Hm... But different distros have different philosophies (not just) about updates. That's part of why people choose a specific distro.
Theres still plenty speaking against flatpak (larger sizes, problems with GTK/qt themes, and it's only meant for GUI applications - you still need a separate system for the kernel and lower-level/cli tools. And frankly, that makes flatpak unusable to me, because the purpose of a centralized package management system is not having duplicate systems).
So in short: y'all are gonna pry pacman from my cold, dead hand.
Not even docker, I just pulled it from the aur, lol.
And yeah, that's fair. Though not really Jellyfins fault if it's not sorted already. Same goes for Plex.
Regarding 2: I don't think I've ever seen this, in what situation would you rather share a video then a description of the problem + your log files?
Regarding 3: Should be fine as along as the script itself isn't harmful. Which you can really only answer by reading the script. (And funnily enough, you'd find an answer to your first question inside this specific script...).
Also Broforce - no idea why it doesn't get mentioned more often, it's incredible on the deck
Radarr/Sonarr :)
My point was more that you can automate all of that.
Sorry, but you're plain wrong on your first issue. Getting all your packages from one source is one of the biggest upsides of Linux.