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All of the above have web GUIs to install, configure, and maintain services and are commonly suggested for someone that is new to self hosting. What are their key differences? Their advantages and disadvantages for common use cases?

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[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

dont know Yunohost

CasaOS is not an operating system and more like a GUI for Docker with access to the terminal via said GUI (at least thats how i used it)
I personally think thats a very good option if you simply want to use an old PC to host stuff and test around but its limited in its scope so if you want things like RAID you need other or additional solutions

TrueNAS is an operating system Might be overkill for a newbie and i think it was ressource intensive but offers a lot of features in return like RAID

Cant really say more because i did not visit the websites recently

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

CasaOS is not an operating system and more like a GUI for Docker

So it’s more like Portainer?

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It’s a web management system for the entire system, including docker containers. So less like Portainer and more like Cockpit with something like Portainer built in. Unlike Portainer the container management is also based around an application marketplace for “one click” deployments with opinionated more-secure defaults. So once installed you’re sort of hiding the regular Linux OS underneath a more beginner friendly appearance of an OS with some guard rails.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

had to look it up, seems like it

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

CasaOS is not an operating system

No, but ZimaOS is the actual OS version.