Been using Nextcloud exclusively for probably 4 years now? Before that it was a mix of nextcloud + Google Drive. It works for me really well, I can grab my files through my vpn with any of my computers when I am not at home.
Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
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Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#22I love Nextcloud but I feel like they should really completely redo their UI. It just doesn't look like something from this decade.
That is not a compelling reason to overhaul a UI (which is something that should rarely, if ever, be done). If it works and is pleasant to use, what it looks like is of no consequence.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#23I run Nextcloud at home with 1.5TB of files and 2 users, on a reasonably sized server. It is painfully slow. Still better than OneDrive, but only just: synscing takes forever, never reaching a fraction of available bandwidth. Upload from my phone is flaky, often hangs and needs manual intervention. It is a battery drain. The whole experience with add-ons and the general UI feels like a 2010 PHP app. I am grateful Nex…
This seems to be a really common issue with NextCloud. I'd say about 30% of installs seems to just..be slow? I've had this happen to me on a handful of installs, and i've had friends/collegues it's happened to.
I'm not aware of any "Fix" besides whiping your install(s) and trying again. Try not to use a backup if you can, as it can keep the slowness/lag across installs.
It's really annoying.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#24Maybe I'm alone but nextcloud has gone from being kinda flaky and annoying to really great the past few years.
I always had terrible trouble keeping it (and before it, Owncloud) updated and in sync with available dependencies on my Debian host. A few years ago, when I built a new NAS, I installed a snap, and that's been the ticket. It's pretty close to flawless now.
I'm not a huge "run everything in a container" guy, but Nextcloud is one of those things I absolutely will always run in a container. It's too much of a beast for me to have any desire to try to manage package versions and fixing it if something breaks.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#25Is nextcloud the good one and owncloud the inferior one?
The good OwnCloud is abandoned, and instead they released some meme enterprise nonsense. I'm running NextCloud, but I hesitate to call it good, because of its kitchen sink approach to features. I really want 2015 era OwnCloud with just files, it being PHP/MariaDB/Apache-based. I refuse to use anything that requires Docker, which is most of the slop alternatives currently available.
I run nextcloud on a NixOS server within a systemd container, so no Docker.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#26If I want to buy a small NAS that just runs Nextcloud and has a copy of my Google Photos library - what do I go with?
I don't have a ton of space so something that fits in the media center.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#27If I want to buy a small NAS that just runs Nextcloud and has a copy of my Google Photos library - what do I go with? I don't have a ton of space so something that fits in the media center.
If you’re going to run your own NAS then consider swapping Google Photos out with Immich.
I know it’s not the question you asked but I feel not enough people know about it as an option and it’s really as good as Google Photos.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#28Is nextcloud the good one and owncloud the inferior one?
My biggest problem with Nextcloud is that it intentionally broke (at least twice by memory) on some updates, wanting me to run some oci command on the box. Remember that "for my family" also means "for my family when I'm gone." I never got round to having to find an alternative thanks to the divorce, but I'd consider Nextcloud a complete non-starter for this reason.
Find an alternative.
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#29How is OpenCloud a serious competitor?
Re: Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
#30If I want to buy a small NAS that just runs Nextcloud and has a copy of my Google Photos library - what do I go with? I don't have a ton of space so something that fits in the media center.
GMKTec G9. Four NVMe slots, plus some internal memory to deploy TrueNAS. It only has 12GB of RAM, but has two ethernet cards, acceptable cooling and performance and has a small footprint.
SSDs shall be single sided and gonna need heatsinks, but I believe it works well and is not tied to any manufacturer for anything.
If you want go all-out get ASUSTOR's Ryzen based systems. You can use the stock firmware or disable it without wiping it and deploy TrueNAS on it. It's a beast.
TrueNAS has containers and applications and VM support so you can run any service you want on it.