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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)

submitted 8 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] AAA@feddit.org 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Decent UI. Affordable lifetime pricing. Actually just-works. No retrospective enshittification. Free trial is actually free, not ad supported.

You get what you pay for, and you're not the product.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Free Tier? You mean the 30 day trial?

[–] AAA@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago

I genuinely thought it's not limited, but yes, the trial.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

*No retrospective enshittification yet

Its not yours they can at any time choose to do so

[–] AAA@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But they haven't so far, and the question was why it's popular at this moment.

Possible future enshittification disqualifies all software, unless you prevent it from going online - which you can also do with Unraid.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

No enshittification is a proprietary software disease. FOSS can be rug pulled and future development can become proprietary, or enshitifued features added (Ubuntu as an example both with Snap and selling search data) but it is MUCH MUCH harder then starting proprietary.

It being self hosted is one of the few real protections it has.