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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Decent UI. Affordable lifetime pricing. Actually just-works. No retrospective enshittification. Free trial is actually free, not ad supported.

You get what you pay for, and you're not the product.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    *No retrospective enshittification yet

    Its not yours they can at any time choose to do so

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    But they haven't so far, and the question was why it's popular at this moment.

    Possible future enshittification disqualifies all software, unless you prevent it from going online - which you can also do with Unraid.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    No enshittification is a proprietary software disease. FOSS can be rug pulled and future development can become proprietary, or enshitifued features added (Ubuntu as an example both with Snap and selling search data) but it is MUCH MUCH harder then starting proprietary.

    It being self hosted is one of the few real protections it has.

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