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I love the fact that (until now at least) they have everything as separate services, so “stock” opencloud only does file synching tasks. Works better for me than Nextcloud the last few years.

I currently run a Dell Wyse 5something, that one’s low power but passively cooled. Total silence for Home assistant and related services.

I had good results with SFF (Small Form Factor) machines, mostly Dell Optiplexes. More space inside while manageably small. Usually a lot of them around as former leasing machines.

Same here, separate disk mounted at /docker

Can you post your fstab?

given the criticality of the stored data I would rather stay in Windows than risking data loss.

That’s what a solid backup strategy is there for. Which has nothing to do with the OS, so get into it.

Linux is also awesome at work, if your workflow allows for it. Unfortunately, I cannot see the CAD/CAE world switching over (or rather bizarrely, back) to Linux anytime soon.

Seconded. Works really well for me.

They all will do that, some more, some less. It’s to stop them from sticking in position.

Oh fantastic… That’s another 5 services to test drive.

NAS

Depends on what your plans are, an actual NAS-only machine or what develops into a general-purpose server. For the NAS part you’d only need a few services like FTP, SMB or whatever you want to run.

Those are easily configured on the command line.

Yeah. Unfortunately a known problem, even if the cause isn’t always clear.

Checked your journal?

Ah, well. I only remembered something about a week.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1?

LE is beta-testing a 7-day validity, IIRC.

Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

No, those are expected or even required to be automated.

whereas the other options basically force you to forever use their database-based system and files are terribly organized, so you are forced to use their interface.

Immich has a “storage templates” section which allows you to choose a folder structure that it will use to store the files in.

Or go the other way and include your folders as external libraries.

Yeah, that’s not going to work. You’ll have to at least rank your requirements. Is size more important, or is it the number of RAM slots? Also, what is “enough CPU/Ram”?

Also also, “unlimited” will only get you unrealistic things like the 10k+ PCI-E SSDs.

KDE is a desktop environment, not a distro. You can therefore install it on most distros, or get variations of the distros (e.g. Kubuntu).

If you’re happy with it, why change? It’s really polished and customisable.

For the parts, impossible to say as we don’t know what you got in there.

It grew from a nice Owncloud fork into a do-it-all groupware solution by adding on more and more things without really improving the basis. Each version the performance gets a little worse, syncing gets stuck more often, etc.

Opencloud looks or at least looked good as it started out as an Owncloud Infinite Scale fork, but if course they’re adding on more and more groupware stuff without improving the core first. Maybe we’re doomed to witness the same cycle with each solution, who knows.

Currently working on moving the more family-relevant services to OIDC-based login via Pocket ID passkeys so I can put my parents on them.

Also, still on the lookout for a good Nextcloud replacement. Even Opencloud displays the first signs of feature creep.