On Blu-ray playback on Linux, there are a few ways. Personally I want my Blu-Rays on a NAS, so I use AnyDVD to turn them into unencrypted ISOs and these play with VLC,Kodi etc. Or another easy way I guess, is to use makemkv on Linux (which is still is in beta for Linux so they give out the key for Blu-Ray for free, though I paid them for their good work) and play the mkv file (also nicely works with the iso's from AnyDVD).
The libraries for Blu-Ray playback of encrypted disks, libbdplus and libaacs are generally in freely available non-free repo's e.g. Fedora's RPM Fusion, so are pretty trivial to add to VLC. The tricky thing is finding keys for all your disks. There is a database of these out there, and hope your disks are there. The best guide I've found that is useful on any Linux distro is ArchLinux one (their Wiki is great for so many Linux things):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray
The pain of Blu-Ray playback is another reason to want AnyDVD on Linux.
As to AnyDVD on Linux, I'd love this, it's pretty much the only reason I still have any Windows boot. The differences between distro's shouldn't be a massive impediment, there are plenty of Linux programs out there that exist for all the major distros without too many issues (Chrome being an example), yes it's more hassle than zero but not insurmountable.
The biggest win for AnyDVD on Linux would surely be the escape from Windows 10 spying and control. The privacy statement has a section "We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”, for example, “protect their customers” or “enforce the terms governing the use of the services" is disturbing. How long before they block AnyDVD or report what they see as "illegal" content (made from legitimately purchased DVDs/BluRays)? Or get paid to do so or get forced to when media companies see they have this ability? For the long term future of AnyDVD, I'd have thought a Linux version is at least a good insurance policy for RedFox.
The libraries for Blu-Ray playback of encrypted disks, libbdplus and libaacs are generally in freely available non-free repo's e.g. Fedora's RPM Fusion, so are pretty trivial to add to VLC. The tricky thing is finding keys for all your disks. There is a database of these out there, and hope your disks are there. The best guide I've found that is useful on any Linux distro is ArchLinux one (their Wiki is great for so many Linux things):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray
The pain of Blu-Ray playback is another reason to want AnyDVD on Linux.
As to AnyDVD on Linux, I'd love this, it's pretty much the only reason I still have any Windows boot. The differences between distro's shouldn't be a massive impediment, there are plenty of Linux programs out there that exist for all the major distros without too many issues (Chrome being an example), yes it's more hassle than zero but not insurmountable.
The biggest win for AnyDVD on Linux would surely be the escape from Windows 10 spying and control. The privacy statement has a section "We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to”, for example, “protect their customers” or “enforce the terms governing the use of the services" is disturbing. How long before they block AnyDVD or report what they see as "illegal" content (made from legitimately purchased DVDs/BluRays)? Or get paid to do so or get forced to when media companies see they have this ability? For the long term future of AnyDVD, I'd have thought a Linux version is at least a good insurance policy for RedFox.