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Already bought the lifetime license. It's great, I don't miss rolling my own bare metal arch servers.
(Because I still do that too)
Edit:
Unraid is stupidly point and shoot. It just works for whatever weird configuration of hardware you have and the provisioning is extremely intuitive, fast, and it just fucking works. Why yes, I will have a paperless server and have it auto update and sure here let's make this space a samba drive to receive docs. Paperless is not brain surgery in arch, but man 5 minute setup for stuff is nice. Ive got maybe 10 containers running that I set up the first time I launched Unraid more than a year ago and I otherwise haven't touched it. The upside and downside is that I didn't have to learn anything to do it. Esp if you get your stuff from the same maker/provider the latest versions all hang together and updating can just be automated.
the 'point and shoot' is why I ended up with it too. I've gotten very tired of spending hours upon hours to make computers work exactly like I want over the years, especially after realizing I'm only actually using 2 or 3 of the dozen+ containers I've installed. I can still tinker and break shit on pis and old laptops when I want.
Yep. My home assistant production deploy is on a separate rpi, same as my pihole, and I've promoted out a few other services out of unraid. As an almost 40 father of 2 with a full time gig, I don't want to dick around with experiments that interrupt the rest of the family and I also don't want to spend a year of "30 mins before bed" to figure out how to deploy a service I'm not even sure I want to use long term.
That's the appeal. Its not that I can't speak CLI or that I don't enjoy it. If something like unraid was managing the barebones there's a lot more spare time to do more interesting stuff.
Exactly. I like doing clever scripting and neat one off projects, I don't like having to become a networking expert, a containerization expert, a hardware expert, and an integration expert so my wife can reliably watch law and order.
I can roll a custom arch build no problem, but I can not set up custom vlan or nat rules or easily swap to a new file system with baked in snapshots or tell you anything about how my GPU compares to anything on the market or how to make it reliably perform hardware acceleration. I would be happy to learn those skills, but sometimes it's all just too much.
If I'm gonna do it, I want to do it. If I need to verbatim copy someone's YouTube video where I use proxmox to use someone's Ubuntu KDE VM to set up couch potato, I'd rather just use unraid and not pretend I'm a FOSSing haxor :).