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> At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012. I agree about the installation

> At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012. I agree about the installation but what's a good solution? If you're self-hosting something (at home) there are two main problems you need to solve. You need to be able to access it from the internet and you need a backup strategy. I would argue that an install isn't complete unless you have those and they aren't easy to automate. As for the UI, I agree. It's pretty blah. But I would take that over pretty much all of the recent garbage UIs that are more catered to making money instead of improving the UX.

Eric_WVGG 7y ago
I guess the fact that 80% of the installation is as good as it is makes me frustrated about the last 20%. One example: the install expects that the data drive will be on a 1-2gb USB attached storage drive; the Odroid uses SATA, 6tb drives are very commonplace, and the process for formatting <4 | >4gb is apparently completely different in Linux? To reiterate, the installer is really good, but someone stopped just short of making it great. Regarding the UI, it's not terrible, but I hope that Nextcloud Corp invests some of their newly found riches on a top-class UX designer.
- Doxin 7y ago
  > the process for formatting <4 | >4gb is apparently completely different in Linux? It's different for any OS. A good tool hides that from the user, but it's as true for Windows as it is for Linux.