Linux pre-build questions

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by ASegredo

Agreeing with EnterNoescape about NTFS. Go with ext4.

Regarding hardware, the old Hauppauge HVR-1600 works well on Linux and is available cheap on Ebay. For analog the old (ancient) PVR-150/250 are bulletproof. For PCIe, the HVR-1250 and cetain variants of the 2250 are supposed to work (and others only with Windows). I don't know of recent hardware cards that are supported, but I'd like too!

I've had trouble getting SageTV9 running on non-Ubuntu but can easily watch TV with the HVR-1600 by using azap to tune and mplayer to watch, so Sage shouldn't have any problem.

I have both 2250 and 2255 working with one of my Docker SageTV installs. They both work well but the 2255 takes forever to do a channel scan but otherwise works well. There are other dual tuner 2250 variants then that?