Continuing the discussion from Umbrel (Server OS)
User reviews of Umbrel look… extremely not promising. Anything like this which isn’t FOSS makes me think it’ll go the way of Cloudron. But I did get lead to this which could have potential:
I’m not sure these things work as flawlessly as the glossy website makes out.
Installing a package with curl -fsSL that doesn’t really track with the underlying system seems like it would be prone to all sorts of breakages when something changes underneath. Trying to support a heap of distributions seems like pointless duplication. If you’re using something like this I can’t see why you couldn’t just commit to a stable base.
In this situation it would have been smart to select something like rpm-ostree base on https://universal-blue.org. That way then they can focus purely on the UI and making that compatible with the base they’re using.
At the end of the day these OSes are basically just a GUI/status board around docker. I guess maybe we’ll give it some time and see.
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Yep, I came to the same conclusion after looking into it more yesterday. Turns out making a system that is actually usable by non-technical people is not as easy as slapping a UI on Docker lol
A NAS OS section would also be interesting.
In the case of CasaOS I can confirm that it is not ready to be handle over to a new user with no docker/linux knowledge. But I also think that overall self-hosting is a subject that by its nature, needs a technical background, so I wouldn’t stop recommending it because of that, I would tho, because it makes some stupid mistakes, like not adding passwords to SMB shares 