i want simple. is this the OS for me? plex/immich/vm/smb

[ncc74656]

i come from core, used it for years. JUST udpated to scale - i want off the truenas train, its god awful. 

i want to go to an app, click install, have it work.   i have 36 drives, i3 12th gen, 10gb networking, various programs.

truenas has had too many updates, paths, changes.... its been too much to keep up with and constantly trying to fix what updates break.  it also has far less features than it did years ago to say nothing of a very limited amount of support and guides. im sure this is due to the constant changes as you can go back a few years and find all the guides you need... just now they are all irrelevant. 

i want a OS that i can call someone or have an active chat at least to help me through settings

Edited 19 hours ago by ncc74656

[Mobius]

2 hours ago, ncc74656 said:

i want to go to an app, click install

This is the goal, we aren't fully there yet. At this time we can only do this with Plex and immich but there are plans to rapidly increase the amount of apps this works with. 

2 hours ago, ncc74656 said:

i want a OS that i can call someone or have an active chat at least to help me through settings

At this time eshtek does not offer that. I think in a ltt video it was mentioned that such a service MIGHT be offered as part of a future subscription offering but there is no news on that yet. 

However a lot of is in this community try to help solve issues other users have in these forums. If there are problems the community can't help solve the hexos team does look into it. 

2 hours ago, ncc74656 said:

i want off the truenas train, its god awful. 

At this time outside of Plex and immich most everything has to be done in the underlying truenas ui but i imagine as hexos matures it'll be less and less reliant on getting things done in the truenas ui.

[ncc74656]

well plex and immich are the two big program i want right now.  truenas kept updating and changing everything, like 15 times in just a few years. i stayed on core version 10 or something for a long time before i finially updated.  at each update point my networking config broke and i had to physically console in to cli and fix things. just a royal pita.  so after a couple updates i just quit.   then a couple weeks ago i decided it was time to go to scale with core being end of life.  i moved up through the versions and to their credit the networking didnt break this time.  however upon hitting fangtooth i came to find the tool tips for settings are a joke - "host path" took tip is "this is how you set host path".  just zero effort put in on everything.    they removed the majority of metric graphs, management interfaces, removed the ability to assign IP addresses... like its a SERVER OS... who the hell does that????

imo i suspect IX systems is trying to cut out feature sets from community edition to reduce its usage and make it far less capable in order to push their paid versions.  everything they are doing makes perfect sense if the goal is to make community free edition a small side project of their company. 

 

so, im either going to have to build a new pool and backup to go back to core, find another os - perhaps hex?  but i dont have time to be doing all this. i wanted to get away from the crazy price hikes of streaming services and google.  i guess if id stayed on core i would not be in this situation....