First of all the page you linked is not the page linked from the landing page. https://gogs.io/docs/installation https://gogs.io/docs/installation I've always

First of all the page you linked is not the page linked from the landing page. https://gogs.io/docs/installation https://gogs.io/docs/installation I've always avoided the docker setup because I want control of where my database is and such details. But yeah all I see when I look at the install instructions are the same steps as gitlab requires, unless you use Docker. It would be possible for them to make a simpler package for simple users where they'd use sqlite for example. This can easily be upgraded to Postgres/MariaDB. I like the ROOT setting because that means I can easily adopt gogs on my existing personal git server which simply uses a gitrepos directory in a home directory on a closet server. So hypothetically were they to use a default database setting, and a default ROOT setting, you could have a working gogs setup with just two package manager commands, one to add the repo and one to install the package. That's painless! Advanced step can be to create a mysql database and import your sqlite data.