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Instead of installing a massive all in one solution, why not install individual services specifically to cover your requirements? Navidrome for music consumption, synching to actually sync files, WebDAV and OnlyOffice for office docs, VLC, Kodi or jellyfin for video consumption, immich for photos, etc.
It will end up being much lighter and more specialised
Once I got comfortable with immich, I realized photos was my main use of nextcloud and immich was so much better. I replaced the rest of nextcloud's functionality with syncthing+filebrowser quantum. Haven't looked back since. Now I don't have to worry about a nextcloud update randomly causing havoc (user error likely).
Ah, have you just solved one of the main limits i have for syncthing. I didnt know about this filebrowser quantum thing. My use case is that i have a keepass file i manage with my wife between devices and on the same laptop (two different debian logins). But really, but is the purpose of this tool? To replace your local kde dolphine for example? Trying to understand the usecase.
Mainly to browse remote files from my phone, allows me to access my documents from any device.
In my case it was Syncthing and Radicale that replaced basically all my Nextcloud use.
Nextcloud isn't bad actually but you really need to use a lot of the million optional features to justify that behemoth.
Truely agree. I also did the nextcloud to syncthing+radical leap but still trying to effectively resolve proper file shating.
This is the way. You also end up with easier debugging due to it being more constrained to specialized services.
Absolutely. There is not a really good reason to use an all-in-one service that does everything "pretty well" when excellent, purpose-built solutions are available.
I tried hosting books and music on Jellyfin for example, before spinning up CWA and Navidrome.
Do you use plain webdav for all your files? Mounted on your computer or via libreoffice somehow?
No, I have the file system mounted to my pc with sshfs. My pc comes on and my server gets mounted in fstab using sshfs, and then I can use anything on my pc to interact with the files and data just like it was directly on my pc. I use WebDAV for my android phone to be able to access office files with only office. I also have file browser quantum on the server providing access through a web interface to the files.