Comment on Time to start over...Thoughts on Umbrel OS?
Profligate_parasite@lemmy.world 5 days agoyeah see here’s the thing: I don’t know what samba is and I’ve never “written” a webpage in my life, simple or no. A lot of people tell me “just use CLI, it’s better!” But “better” usually ends up meaning “you have more control over all these little options that you never use!” I just don’t get it. I watched TechnoDadLife do a side-by-side of OMV and CasaOS, and he was done with CasaOS setup in less than 2 minutes… OMV took a ton of customization, settings, plugin & terminal downloads, configs… nightmare. He says “if youre just managing media, use CasaOS or similar.” and I have yet to see a better argument for CLI/pure headless. It seems a bit elitist hacker gatekeepy to me. Everyone always says “whatever works for you, but that thing that works for you is worse.” for no real discernible benefit that I can understand.
@Profligate_parasite @laere
Sure, you can have a whole server with CasaOS or any other patform in 3 minutes, with multiple services in 20. Now comes the reality, a faulty update, an error on that frontend ,etc. What would you do without that GUI?
Use whatever is easier for you, but learn how to work with your server without any GUI.