Need to vent about HexOS and waiting!

[FangerZero]

Just frustrated everything I want to hangs on HexOS getting to a point I can use it as a "prod" environment as well as more apps. I have a small movie/Anime collection I want to port over to the hexOS drives. I could probably do it now since it sounds like we can hook up existing pools? But the app I want to use JellyFin is far too complicated for me to figure out via TrueNAS I don't have the patience to figure out what to do Mainly I don't want to have to configure every little thing. The same goes for ROMM and Steam Headless. I want it to house backups of my ROMMs and my Steam Games so that when I want to downlaod them I can without using bandwidth. I'm using an old Gaming computer as my server (i7 2600k w/ a XFX 290x and 20GB ram 😎 lol) so I can play some games still.  Oh the reason I want to slow down on my bandwidth usage because we have multiple people who work from home, and some months I almost reach my data cap. 🥲 But remember the ISPs said "Customers like data caps F* OFF)

But the other reason is I also want to move entirely away from windows if I can since I've had enough of them. But to do that I would like all 3 of my computers to sync and I want them to sync locally to HexOS. 😔 So before I move my GPD Win4 to Bazzite I need 🤨 to be able to sync all my data over  from the Win4 (which has all my ROMs), And then transition that to Bazzite, and then once that is done I'll be moving my desktop to Bazzite too but the longer I wait on the desktop the better, cause I was dumb and have a 3070 in it. 

So yeah I just can't wait until HexOS finally says "we're making it official" and "look we have more than 2 apps have fun!"

[Todd Miller]

Did they ever say they would have more than two apps or just that there would be a template if someone wanted to add more apps?

[Mobius]

43 minutes ago, Todd Miller said:

Did they ever say they would have more than two apps or just that there would be a template if someone wanted to add more apps?

jellyfin was announced as the next app and an template was announced too

[Todd Miller]

Were dates given for either of those things?  If not it proves FangerZero's point and seem to justify their frustration.  Is either Jellyfin or Templates in testing?  If not then neither would seem to be ready by HexOS 1.0.  And while I am on that subject, I haven't seen or heard any discussion on when that go live date would be.  It would seem that if that were within a couple months we would have heard something and be finalizing our hardware purchases to be ready.  For me HexOS is already prod.  I wanted a simple NAS and when I heard LTT talking about his investment and requirements I thought I finally had what I was looking for.  Yeah Plex is neat and Immich is cool and I'm near 60 so I really talk like that.  The only way this ends badly is the company goes under before the local UI is created.  If you don't see the frustration of your community regardless if it's a bug in HexOS, TrueNAS or the app being run, well then you have a much larger issue on your hands than whether the switches should be to the right or left of the descriptor text.  Yes it's a beta test.  Yes we knew that going in.  But also "yes, this is coming or that is coming and we are also working on a new file system" is just more vagueness in an already vague picture as far as we know.

[Mobius]

4 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

Were dates given for either of those things? 

in a blog post they said jellyfin is coming in q3 and in an earlier blog post templates were also mentioned as coming in q3

4 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

Is either Jellyfin or Templates in testing? 

unfortunately i am not aware of the status of this. However if these had to be delayed then there would be communication.
for example vm support was delayed and it was mentioned in the blog post and we were given a reason why the team chose to delay it 
(truenas scale decided to change to a new vm system and the team decided to wait for that instead)

4 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

The only way this ends badly is the company goes under before the local UI is created

I don't think we have to worry about that. The team expectations were wildly blown away with the community support.
There was also no venture capital funding sought out by the team.

4 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

If you don't see the frustration of your community

The team is most definitely aware of the frustration and have been working to improve.
There has been more communication than before and they are working to better incorporate community feedback.

5 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

whether the switches should be to the right or left of the descriptor text

think of this as a step in the right direction in asking what the community wants.
i would not be surprised at all if we start to get more substantial things to vote on in the future.

5 hours ago, Todd Miller said:

But also "yes, this is coming or that is coming and we are also working on a new file system" is just more vagueness in an already vague picture as far as we know.

you are free to ask for clarification in the forms and im sure the team would try their best to clarify