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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 11 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu 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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[–] smegger@aussie.zone 24 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Unraid is easy to start with when you have no idea what you're doing. Other stuff often requires more up front work to setup.

The paid licence is just the cost of the conveniences.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

UnRAID is also great when you know exactly what you’re doing but you do this stuff for work every day and your home stuff you want to be easy and out of the box lol.

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[–] Kettrick@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Same, I'm a Linux user since redhat 5 and more than capable of running all the unraid features on a regular Linux distro or proxmox, truenas, whatever ... I just don't want to, I want flexible disk sizes and a bunch of docker containers, that's it. Unraid offers that in a great package.