

You can install it on Windows, Linux, or Mac computers as well as Android and iOS, video game consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, your Apple TV, and there are even smart TVs that come with Plex built right in. The Plex model is simple: you park all your media on a single computer with the Plex server software installed, and then you install Plex on on all your other devices. Plex is a centralized media server system that eliminates virtually every problem you run into while managing a large personal media collection.

Even for serious geeks with a lot of experience managing their media, it’s a huge pain to get all your devices talking and accessing the same collection. It doesn’t have to be that way, though.
