Has anyone migrated from CasaOS to ZimaOS?
Is it worth the migration? It seems like a lot of work, and maybe going in a more commercialized direction that I don’t like.
Curious what other people’s thoughts/experiences are.
I don’t see any benefit.
CasaOS to ZimaOS migration - thoughts?
Submitted 4 days ago by savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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artyom@piefed.social 4 days ago
irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve run CassaOS briefly just to test it out. I’ve never run ZimaOS tho. ZimaOS looks like they have a larger app store for addons. It doesn’t seem like ‘a lot of work’, especially utilizing CTOZ, but ‘a lot of work’ is subjective I guess.
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
The parts I’m worried about are here: www.zimaspace.com/…/casaos-to-zimaos-migration#Ot…
Specifically, system-level configs includes storage mounts (I have my NAS mounted onto my app server for storage and that was hell to get working) and non-Casa docker containers (I have a couple).
artyom@piefed.social 4 days ago
They’re pretty much the same thing except zima can be installed as an image where casa has to be manually layered on top of Debian using a curl command.
zonklezoop@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I haven’t looked. Not long ago, I decided to just ditch Casa entirely. Moving all my containers out and rebuilding them took me a week or so. There were some apps that I missed something or other on and had to start fresh with. Luckily nothing too critical.
Between Homarr, Dashdot, and Dockhand, I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.
savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Casa hits a great niche for me - I do most of my management on-the-go from my phone. It hits the perfect balance of convenience.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
I moved from CasaOS to… debian. Once you have the tools in place (e.g. Portainer for docker control, Gethomepage for status, termux on your phone for ssh…) CasaOS has no added value. On the contrary I find it pollutes my docker-compose files.
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 4 days ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 14 acronyms.
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