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QHC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Do you have personal experience with Nextcloud or Owncloud? I have tried the former and it’s been a general nightmare. I’m using Docker and have a dozen or more other containers that all work just fine, but even once I got Nextcloud installed and working it had all kinds of permission problems or just wouldn’t install things from its own built-in app store. Never did get any kind of document collaboration working.

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Rootiest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’ve had some trouble with Next cloud as well. For me it feels sluggish and bloated.

Someone in another thread here said “NextCloud can do everything, but it doesn’t do anything particularly well” and that seems to mirror my experience with it for the most part.

Of all the self-hosted containers I’ve set up NextCloud gave me the most trouble

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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use the nextcloud docker image and I’ve never had any of those issues…

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- QHC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I should just start over and try again, probably did something silly that screwed things up.
  
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Haui@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nextcloud (or docker for that matter) are rather complex.

Permission problems are every day life in linux, you always have to sudo or - if you change that - someone else can vaporize your server and steal all your data. Linux is infinitely more secure because it is a nightmare to use casually with a complex setup. Some windows script kiddie is gonna die inside your directories and never be found again.

Writing a script that you need to make executable first? Chowning files that are made by docker? Having to use a specific user inside docker (in case of nextcloud especially)?

All these things are incredibly frustrating but given the sheer complexity of nextcloud, it’s actually working rather good imo. So does linux.

I‘m not shitting on linux, docker or nc. I love them all but saying they’re not working just says they’re not plug and play yet. Other examples: most things snap are a mystery for me. Freakin permissions.

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