The thing I learned just now is that if you're going to do Plex. Do it on Ubuntu.

The amount of pain and suffering I went through doing it on openSUSE was enormous. On Ubuntu it just worked. Now whether that's because the permissions are already correct or Ubuntu is just better supported, IDK

@thelinuxcast if you're still doing Plex for some reason*

Use Jellyfin.

Also, docker not an option? Kinda solves most of distro related quirks and it would mean you aren't forced to use Ubuntu.