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Timing is perfect for this topic. I appreciate you all waiting until 2025 to bring this up. The road to 1.0 blog post was just a way to set our targets out there. We didn't communicate a specific timeline because we honestly had no idea how much to estimate we would sell at launch, which would directly in turn impact our ability to expand the team and impact our timelines. We just felt that, conservatively, we would do well enough to deliver the blog post roadmap in 2025....yeah....we had no idea what was about to happen ;-). Beat our expectations by about 5x. With the success we've had, we just onboarded three new people to the company in the past 30 days, with a goal of bringing on at least two more developers in 2025 as well and potentially a few other admin hires. This has completely thrown our previous "back of the napkin" roadmap out the window. Let's just say, we're not going to be talking about features just for 1.0 anymore. You guys have given us enough runway to plot out PAST 1.0. Give us a little more time to get our bearings as we onboard new staff, prepare new development environments, implement new systems, and role out our first software updates. More communication coming soon.

I would like to see first party support for placing any app behind some of the most popular VPNs (PIA, Nord, Express, Proton, Tailscale, etc), as well as custom VPNs (WireGuard, OpenVPN, etc). For example, you may install “The Lounge” IRC client and have all internet communication pass through a PIA VPN so that your home IP is not exposed while chatting. Traditional methods of doing this involve painful configuration of iptables or other firewall rules. I believe this is an area where HexOS could really simplify things: Install a VPN plugin, authenticate with it, and then simply assign an app to a VPN plugin via the app’s settings if desired. It would be fully accessible from the home network without going through the VPN, but all internet traffic would go through the VPN with a kill switch in case the VPN goes down. Thoughts?

Forgot to mention, the CPU Intel Xeon E-2386G (FCLGA1200 Socket) is not physically compatible with the initial motherboard ASUS P11C-I (LGA1151 Socket). ChatGPT is not always good for precise details such as this, but a good place to start would be to find a motherboard you like, then check the Specifications and CPU/Memory QVL/Compatibility lists to match the component(s) and see what works for you.

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To answer short Yes, HexOs could be a all in one shop for a home lab, Hex/Truenas has it advantages and draw backs like other hypervisors. So far in my testing and playing besides the limiting factors on my hardware setup I mainly use it for small Apps , Plex and Immich while using a Dell R730 for my heavy lifting VM's. I have tested both windows and linux Vm's and it performed as expected from a hypervisor. YYou can run a VPN like TailScale or if you have a domain you can use CloudFlare to access things outside of your network with out any issues " it will need setup outside of the Hexos gui ". For the Plex comment If you have older / slow hardware that would not be suitable to run as a nas and plex, it is easy to run 2 different computers to run plex and have it point back to the shares in HexOs. I have done this previously when I still was using a older Lenovo Ix2 Nas while using plex in a Hyper-V instance . For reference this is what i am using my HexOS for at the moment

I cannot exactly answer you what you can do in Truenas concerning Apps/VM, however there are 2 approaches which would likely fit your bill if you want to have 1 server running all your stuff. If NAS is your main purpose and you only need some Apps (Plex, Immich, Home Assistant, Bitwarden etc.) and don't need to run different VMs (some Linux Distro, Windows etc.) Hexos on bare metal should be your way to go. However if you want to have different VMs running (Ubuntu for Docker, a Windows Server for Minecraft, Opnsense and Hexos) in that case you should use Proxmox as your OS and install Hexos in a VM, because Hexos is mainly a NAS with hypervisor capabilities, if however you need to run multiple VMs Proxmox is your better choice as the OS.

I like UGREEN because it is simple and has everything for an ordinary user. Most of us just want a media server and host a few other applications or run a VM and have RAID support. It has a nice and clear mobile application for remote access to UGREEN. Before you install TrueNAS (HexOS), I recommend creating a clone of the UGOS system or installing it on another disk because UGREEN does not have an iso system but only an img, which is only firmware. So, to return to the UGOS system, you need to contact support, where they will provide you with the iso system based on the serial number, but it's a lengthy process, so make a backup and then you can start testing.

My opinion is that Reddit was great prior to the release, I was very active before, but now I’ve moved away from it. now it should more so be just for casual chat / topics / conversation. I don’t think it should be (long term) treated as the core support hub. Even now you’re seeing a lot of duplicate questions between the two locations. The Hub imo is what should be the core way for the community to communicate, document & get support. This tool needs a single source of truth, otherwise without it, the goal of this software being for the laymen starts to fall apart. I personally think discord is too niche and doesn’t help with what Hex is trying to do, and rather than consolidate information, it’ll just fragment it… But hey, I’m just some guy on the internet with an opinion 😅🤣

Please. Don't go down the Discord or Reddit path.

I never got too serious about game hosting but I used to host an MC server for a short while, between friends, only stopping due to external factors. I would 100% find value in a feature like this, especially since I'm planning to switch to something like HexOS for NAS usage anyway sometime in the future. If they did a first-party, simple intergrated solution, something else to consider would be the extra strain on customer support, although I'm speaking from a speculative position. Think about it this way - You can find cheap or even free solutions to a fair bit of HexOS's basic function, like cloud storage or streaming sites. The people that value this convenience over the basic freedom of self-hosting, and actually go for these alternatives, are probably far less technical and would likely have placed far more load on CS than the average HexOS customer if there was no simple, cheap alternative. As you know, there is no simple, cheap alternative to hosting an MC server, so you can see how something like this feature, that offers a dead simple setup with less cost than a year of a dedicated server from Bisect or the like, would draw in that kind of inexperienced customer. I hope you understand what I mean. Like I said, I'd personally absolutely love a feature like this, I could run a 24/7 small-scale Minecraft server along with my NAS at hardly any extra cost, I just think it would be best if it was offered by the community instead of HexOS directly. I'm excited to see where this goes.

That’s truly awesome 👏