Simply put, most pre-built NASes, like the ones I own, are not designed to handle heavy operational tasks like transcoding ...

It's true: not all of the thousands of distros out there are worth your time.

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

OpenMediaVault 8, or OMV8 for shorts, codenamed "Synchrony" has been released, now supporting only 64-bit architectures ...