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submitted 11 months ago by KaKi87@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] huquad@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

For me, it was initially a jumping off point because I was more comfortable with GUIs. Now it's a matter of convenience. I'm much better than I was with CLI, docker, etc, but I find unraid makes management easier. Proprietary doesn't necessarily equal bad. Since it's built on top of open source, you can pivot if they start pulling stupid shit.

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