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Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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It's close to sharepoint and sharepoint takes around 15MB to download.

If you want to run something like sharepoint suite locally, this is the best option. Question is - do you want/need to run sharepoint locally?

I hate javascript and I have it off by default. With that being said, this is a huge app with tons of options. Other apps without compression are just as bad

Draw io - 25MB

Outlook - 30MB

Gmail - 30MB

The difference is, this is oss, anyone can contribute and fix it

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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I might be misunderstanding what you mean, but maybe the .stignore[1] file is what you're looking for? Apologies if it isn't :-) [1] https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

Oh no worries, yeah that works like gitignore, I’m talking more like how Nextcloud and Dropbox let you like, have a list of folders and checkboxes where you can be like “this machine doesn’t need my family photo collection synced to it” kinda thing. Which to my knowledge syncthing doesn’t have. Don't apologize tho! I appreciate the help!

You can achieve this by having multiple sync folders instead of one folder with everything. Then you can configure exactly what you sync where.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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I see 6 officially supported linux distributions. I don't know where anyone got the idea that they can only get it to run on ubuntu. It's containerized. Who cares what the host os is, beyond "it can run containers"?

Here's where I got it from: https://doc.owncloud.com/ocis/next/depl-examples/ubuntu-comp... And I wish it was "containerized" but really it's "dockerized" as this thread demonstrates: https://central.owncloud.org/t/owncloud-docker-image-with-ro... So yeah like I said in my original comment, for personal use it's just not right for me (because I choose not to use docker in my personal projects), but I hope it's right…

I think what you're looking at is: "Here's an example of installing this on ubuntu 24.04. These instructions will also work on 22.04." This is in no way saying they can only get it to work on ubuntu; they just haven't written a step-by-step example like this for other distributions.

And yeah, trying to use podman with something that's based on docker compose is ... probably gonna give you some headaches, I'd guess. I don't particularly know the pitfalls but if you're expecting it to be transparently swappable, I don't think that's an owncloud issue.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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For a general file sharing / storage solution there is also OpenCloud: https://opencloud.eu/de It's what I want to try next. Written in go, it looks promising.

Too many Cloud things! OwnCloud, NextCloud, OpenCloud. There have* to be better names available...

Suggest one.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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I have OpenCloud working on my home server, and it features integration with the Collabora suite of software for office apps. Draw.io is also already supported.

They offer a Docker compose file that sets up Collabora for you, but I can't find anything info on other apps, let alone integration. Where can I see what they support?

You're right, it was my mistake. The docker compose file can set up Collabora for you and allows you to open documents from inside OpenCloud by opening the file in an embedded Collabora view. Likewise, Draw.io works in a similar fashion, opening a view to embed.diagrams.net. Underneath it's just hosting the files and offloads the operations to other apps. It's convenient, but not particularly sophisticated.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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I would love to like Nextcloud, it's pretty great that it does exist. Just that makes it better than... well everything else I haven't found. What frustrates me is that it looks like it works, but once in a while it breaks in a way that is pretty much irreparable (or at least not in a practical way). I want to run an iOS/Android app that backs up images on my server. I tried the iOS app and when it works, it's cool.…

> The majority of CEO job is excellent judgement and motivating people.

Ain't that the problem with everything. They all look good on paper until you try it for a while.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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I see 6 officially supported linux distributions. I don't know where anyone got the idea that they can only get it to run on ubuntu. It's containerized. Who cares what the host os is, beyond "it can run containers"?

Here's where I got it from: https://doc.owncloud.com/ocis/next/depl-examples/ubuntu-comp... And I wish it was "containerized" but really it's "dockerized" as this thread demonstrates: https://central.owncloud.org/t/owncloud-docker-image-with-ro... So yeah like I said in my original comment, for personal use it's just not right for me (because I choose not to use docker in my personal projects), but I hope it's right…

Your second link appears to be about OwnCloud, not OwnCloud Infinite Scale.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Don't forget, "Lot of the code was written on a mobile phone using tmux and vim on a bus". That's crazy.

I have tried to run micro https://micro-editor.github.io/ on my phone but this is some other beast if someone is running tmux and vim on their phone I have found that typing normally is really preferably on android and usually I didn't like having to press columns or ctrl or anything so as such since micro is really just such a great thing overall, it fit so perfectly that when I had that device, I was coding more ba…

I'm using micro in termux on my android. The keyboard of termux is quite adapted to the CLU bindings (ctrl-f, ctrl-s,...). My main use is to take notes, though I bought a physical small bluetooth keyboard perfect for making a little bit of python scripts from time to time.

I must admit that coding in vim on a kinda big project on a smartphone is really impressive.

Re: Why Nextcloud feels slow to use

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Is Nextcloud reliable enough for "production" use? Last time I heard a certain privacy community recommended against Nextcloud due to some issues with Nextcloud E2EE.

the question is, what's your use case? for me it's a family photo backup with calendars (private and shared ones) running in a VM on the net. its webui is rarely used by anyone (except me), everyone is using their phones (calendars, files). does it work? yes. does anyone other than me care about the bugs? no. but noone really _uses_ it as if it was deployed for a small office of 10-20-30 people. on the other hand, th…

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