I am currently dipping my toes into storing blu rays big hard drives. Before committing to an actual build I want to test things on a spare laptop I have laying around. I’ve seen a bunch of videos but I’m not sure if I will waste a ton of time following those tutorials , since all of them either focus on gaming server or media server.

I’m already running Linux on that laptop.

I’ve heard of casaOS being a solid choice and I can install jellyfin from there. Is that the best option right now ?

And when I want to also host a gaming server, can I add to that setup or do I need a whole different basis? CasaOS doesn’t seem to be gaming focused.

Or can those applications run next to each other and I just install whatever gaming server I want in the Linux cmd?

I feel like I’m only missing a thread connecting all of the information I already gathered.

My laptops power or specs don’t really matter here, I’m not planning to actually host gaming servers on that laptop, but I want to test around to see how things work before ordering dedicated parts for a server.