Weird thing to downvote, this is how I tested Linux since if I broke something or wanted to try a different distro I just deleted the VM and tried another. It's way more annoying to distrohop once you've installed a system to your machine that also has all your files and configs set up.
I find link shorteners useful for sharing (ephemeral) links to others (especially if they're massive) but for linking stuff on the web where you can hide it under an anchor tag is definitely a bad idea.
RISC-V is just about at pi3 levels of performance so it's not really that good for end user stuff yet. Alibaba launched a new core recently that might improve things though.
On their servers? possibly. RISC-V is competitive when you stuff a bunch of cores into it and make it do basic server tasks that haven't gotten more complex over the years. And in AI, you may just need a cheap CPU to orchestrate your GPUs/NPUs so anything will work there.
I think we'll see m1+ levels of desktop performance on RISCV within the next 4 years though. trump will do wonders for the Chinese semiconductor industry.
That's the thing, though. I don't have to turn off mitigations on Linux. And I don't even think it's possible to disable the very same mitigations in Windows - Windows itself is just a super inconsistent platform for software benchmarking.
In fact, whenever I've found benchmarks it's not that much of a benefit, especially as the mitigations get more optimised with time.
Desktop ARM is great but it's still locked behind like 2 vendors (Snapdragon and Apple) and has hardware more locked down than x86.
x86 is, well, x86.
RISC-V might be slower right now but China's mega investment is going to force others to rush into the ISA to try and beat them to market. Give it 5 years and we're gonna see a totally different landscape to now.
Congrats! and besides, if you decide you like a different media player later you're still free to spin it up and point it to the same media drives, plex/jelly/emby/whatever don't modify your files. I've even seen some use Jellyfin and Plex.
Level1tech was reviewing the Ryzen 9950X/9900X and he noted how performance on Windows was wildly inconsistent depending on peculiar settings such as sidestepping security features and marking apps to run as administrator (aka also sidestepping windows security features) yet on Linux you can get better performance via Proton OOTB.
Linux has its quirks too but people kid themselves when they convince themselves that the dozens of weird tasks and apps and tweaks they make to Windows are "plug and play" compared to Linux, which in my experience has been way less tweaking.
The main tweaks I've done on linux usually include installing ROG-control-center (optional laptop faff) or cryotweaks on Steamdeck (which just sets some sensible options already enabled on most distros)
It's not that hard in practice. You can start with jellyfin then work up from there. After that it's a torrent client, after that its radarr/sonarr, after that it's prowlarr, after that its jellyseer. Every step you can stop to tinker and fix issues and you can even swap stuff that doesnt work how you like.
Weird thing to downvote, this is how I tested Linux since if I broke something or wanted to try a different distro I just deleted the VM and tried another. It's way more annoying to distrohop once you've installed a system to your machine that also has all your files and configs set up.