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Looks like we have 25.10 in the wild (https://forums.truenas.com/t/truenas-25-10-0-is-now-available/57343), hope we can see a HexOS update based on this soon...

Hey it would be cool to have a straight forward way to install Nextcloud (e.g. the all in one edition https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-install-the-nextcloud-all-in-one-on-linux/) on HexOS. I set it up myself on my homelab, but the setup was not as easy and while the software itself works great, I'm not as satisfied with my implementation. It offers a lot of features with a client that is available on a lot of devices already, essentially substituting Cloud storage, Google Calender, Contacts, Office products, Slack (e.g. for small businesses) and as I just saw even LLM like ChatGPT. This would add huge additional value to HexOS, since you easily could substitute a lot of subscriptions that way, while having enormous privacy benefits, a thing the target audience of HexOS would surely profit of. Especially if there is also a way to safely expose it to the internet.

Can the hexos team confirm if they are working on an automatic update solution for Immich, or are the guides provided the final solution?

I am not a beta tester, i know i bought a beta test software. My issue is that after almost a whole year i can scan the forums and most issues someone will state, you will need to access truenas to fix it. If i need to access the free software to fix the paid software then I been duped and mislead after a year.. I can see that the team has curated a few more apps and that's great, but I gave yet to see the VM workspace. Will that be a 1.0 release or 2.0, 3.0 etc.? Yes, I understand this is beta but I need more meat than little morsels here and there. Honestly I'm just blabbing I don't run hex because the only reason I got hex OS is to not have to figure things out in truenas and creating simple shares for backup failed and i had to access truenas to fix permission. At that point i gave up and would rather use my electricity for something else. Don't get me wrong im waiting for the day that i can just point and click and be done.

In the end HexOS turned into more of a TrueNAS installer for me. I don't know if that saved me a ton of time and hassle, or if it was more like an hour worth of following a guide instead, but either way getting up and running was very painless. After that, I can't think of a thing HexOS has actually fully supported without needing to pop into TrueNAS. Not even the health status in HexOS can be trusted, which is stil baffling to me. I've been saying I feel it was launched very prematurely, and I maintain that. I'm hoping that it was because they desperately needed cashflow, in which case HexOS could turn out well in the end. If, on the other hand, they felt it was in good shape to launch to early adopters, I would be much less optimistic. Time will tell. I've gotten the NAS to a state where it does the job now, without having done anything to break or confuse HexOS (at least that I can see), so I'm just using it now and seeing what the future brings. It might be HexOS, it might be shedding HexOS and just going pure TrueNAS. In a sense you could say I've shelved HexOS, because there's no reason for me to ever access its interface. If my boot drive exploded today I would probably just install TrueNAS and recover the pool there instead, because HexOS doesn't even offer a way to backup and restore itself (another baffling "nah, we don't need that before releasing" decision), or even recover an existing pool without at least threatening to wipe it in the process. But, technically, HexOS is still on my server, so there's that.

Could be me but I do this at a router / switch / vlan level. It also allows for monitoring and delegation a bit easier