I’m touching every public API endpoint in this code and it is smooth.

That code is as smooth as its namesake.

Worth noting that Kodi is available as a flatpak. You could just try it on nearly any Linux distro.

I was actually testing a Vero V earlier this evening!

The Jellyfin integrations with Kodi are (in my opinion) bad.

There’s the veraion that syncs with Kodi’s library, but the sync is super brittle.

There’s the version that is more “Jellyfin app” (JellyCon), but it might be the slowest UI I’ve ever seen.

For me, Jellyfin just does not work well with Kodi.

Appreciate the suggestions.

I have to run Ubuntu for our security software (Vanta), and I did thr upgrade early mostly hoping they’d finally ironed out the issues with the ipu7 camera on the Dell XPS 13 (9350).

It’s otherwise fine (although I get a touch irrational about snaps…)

Reinstalled my work laptop earlier today.

1. IPU7 camera still doesn’t work out of the box. Hoping there’s an OEM driver released at some point.
2. Switching away from snap-based Firefox means a firefox that won’t start up. I’m now stuck with Firefox in a Snap, which can’t manage gnome extensions. Annoying paper cut requiring installing (ironically) a flatpak to manage extensions.
3. They removed the “Software and Updates” package from the default install, making for a worse experience for new users trying to fix driver issues
4. The dash-to-dock plugin that Cannonical default installs overrides some keyboard shortcuts (particularly super+q - my preferred shortcut for closing programs)
5. ptyxis is fine as a terminal, but all configs only go through dconf, so any changes you want require a pile of searching
6. sudo -E doesn’t actually bring in environment vars, breaking at least some scripts.

Some of these come from Cannonical switching away from GNU userland tools. Some of these may be more Gnome choices. And some just suck.

If I wasn’t stuck with Ubuntu because of software requirements, I would use nearly anything else.

They keep the feature list fairly up to date:

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/overview/