After months of waiting, I finally got myself an instance with Libre Cloud. I was expecting basic file storage with a few goodies but boy, this is soooo much more. I am amaze by how complete this is!!! Apps let me configure my instance to fit everything I need, my workflow is now crazy fast and I can finally say goodbye to gdrive, gsuite, trello, calendar, etc. All of this, with 1tb while not giving any of ma data to some evil business for… 10$ cad a month!? Can’t believe this is not what every organisation are using.
Really a pain in the ass to set up and tweak to your liking. After you overcome that hurdle, it runs relatively good.
docker-compose up -dOof what a pain this was! Glad it finally works and I can move on with my life!!
TIL “setting up and tweaking Nextcloud to your liking” = starting docker
Hey hey hey. That’s not fair. You also have to
sudo apt install docker.io docker-composeYou really should not install those from the distro repositories. They are far less up-to-date. This is the official documentation for adding the Docker repository to a Debian system, there’s one for Ubuntu as well. You can just copy and paste the entire code block from step 1. Afterwards you can just use apt to install it, but you want to use this command to make sure you get everything you need:
sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-pluginInstalling it this way will mean you need to use the
docker composecommand, notdocker-composewhich is deprecated.
Using Nextcloud AIO takes that pain away if you are into Docker. It has everything needed bundled in it, including a db and web server.
I’ve been running it for about 6 years, literally never did me dirty.
Docker compose pull every couple weeks, bump the major version whenever it’s time, migrations always work.
I run Nextcloud for many, many years. I hosted it for a very long time at Hetzners second lowest tier of Webspace they rent. It was not very fast there (you get what you pay for), but fast enough for our need here. Later I moved it to an Azure VM and after that to my Homeserver where it runs blazingly fast, especially since the last updates they pushed out.
In all that time I never reinstalled. I just upgraded to the newer versions when they were out. The only times I had problems upgrading was when I was hosting at the cheap Webspace instance at Hetzner and an upgrade process took longer than the PHP timeout my very cheap hosting instance provided. So it was never a fault of Nextcloud, but just that I hosted it on basically the cheapest hosting plan I could find.
We use it for file sharing, calendar + contacts (+ Sync with DAVx), Notes and of course Talk. For talk to make full use of Voice + Video calls, you should have a TURN Server, but if you do not use that (if you just text) it was running great even on the Webspace instance at Hetzner.
We are very happy in our family that it exists, that it is free and that it serves us well since many years.
It’s alright. It is confusing as shit to use though. Their UI is terrible.
Yes, it is very good. It’s great to use perpetually half made software.
If you don’t like bugs, you shouldn’t be using software. Especially not software designed to do more than one thing. And extra especially not software designed to run on more than one system.
But maybe a Casio watch would be fine for you. Mine hasn’t had any bugs.
The point is that every single feature they try to add to it ends up as yet another buggy thing that never gets fixed. They should focus on making the core things works decently instead of adding new features. After all this time they didn’t get the sync to be as reliable as Syncthing, why would they venture into webmail’s and whatnot ?
Webmail has been a Nextcloud feature for years. They improved it. That’s literally what you just asked for. Improving the core components.
They improved it? You can’t even add a bullet list. No way to have a full screen typing experience. It’s slow like no other and basic formatting tools are already hidden. Is that what you call improvements?
I understand that everyone doesn’t always have a perfect experience but I’ve been using the same instance of nextcloud for over 8 years I just keep upgrading and migrating. It just works. Only issues I’ve had is when Debian withholds updating php for too long or when they finally do all the config files for php get fucked and I have to redo them all.
Use docker
