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Install jellyfin, both fbackend and frontend
# pacman -S jellyfin-server jellyfin-web
Start jellyfin
# systemctl start jellyfin
Usually you'd edit some config file in /etc first but jellyfin is 'user friendly' so you log in at http://localhost:8096/ and configure from there.
Set the service to automatically start at boot
# systemctl enable jellyfin
View logs of the jellyfin service with (use -fu to watch them). Very useful for debugging issues.
# journalctl -u jellyfin
The most common issue is that the jellyfin service will run as its own user which might not have permissions to your archive of media.
Containers
If you're installing with containers the easiest to set up is with docker-compose. Basically you write a yaml file that defines all the different services, networks, and most importantly: where the containers can access your host system. I'm not going to explain more because there's excellent documentation and probably tutorials for exactly your case.
Quadlets are like a docker-compose file but split into different files, use podman instead of docker, and are managed by systemd. You write each container, volume, and network as its own file in /etc/containers/, run # systemctl daemon-reload and that magically generates .service files and then you can start and manage them like they were a native application.
Caveat, I've only recently dipped my toes into quadlets but I'm already enamored with them. My only gripe is if you get the quadlet files systax wrong you will see no warnings unless you check journalctl. Docker-compose is definitely easier to set up and I do recommend learning with that first. IMO its easier to learn docker-compose before docker.
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Plex 
Already have a lifetime Plex Pass and the app is wife-approved. Jellyfin is very much not. Sometimes you have to just meet people where they are instead of seeking perfect FOSS compliance across everything in the house.
Kubernetes? suuuure
I personally use Kodi as Plex is not open source, though there's also Jellyfin. Let me know if you need help with Docker as I work in the industry
I truly do not understand how to work with Bazzite's immutable file structure. I get why it's good, but it also means I can't just run a command or open a Debbie or Rippum to install software. I also understand that containerizing the media server is better somehow, but I don't really get the point nor do I get how to actually do any of that. Like, it's faster than a VM but why is it actually bad practice to just install and run all this stuff "normally" like I can on Windows?
Apparently I'm supposed to use a quadlet for plex?
Presumably I'm also going to have to use containers to set up services like Radarr and Sonarr and Bazarr for automatic torrent and subtitle management?
You're supposed to install Jellyfin instead. 🙂
Absolutely not, sorry. I have a Plex lifetime pass and jellyfin is too jank for wife approval factor.