Hi Nick! Don't know if you are interested in this but you revealed your Gmail address while describing some themes or something like that...along with your full name (just before min 4:00) Also, this is my first comment on your channel, so Hi!!
If anyone really likes using a certain piece of FOSS software, please consider donating to the project. Developers spend a lot of time making free and open-source software. Let's support them as a community.
Totally, though Nextcloud GmbH is also making a solid sum supporting businesses in using their software, similarly to how Red Hat does it. Anyway, their software is great and doesn't hurt to donate some money to it's development.
@@Ma1ne2 Agreed that Nextcloud doesn't really need support from individuals. I really had community projects in mind. For example, at the moment I support Armbian and the OpenBSD Project. It's only about $10 a month, but I hope it helps in some way.
I think next cloud should ship a nextcloud box that is a plug-and-play private cloud interface for consumers. Heck, id buy that even it it meant paying a little extra. You pay once for the entire setup, no subscriptions. You can upgrade storage as you need instead of paying more for a higher subscription. It may appeal to consumers that don't understand home servers o VPS's. Plus it will generate Next Cloud a ton of cash without relying on donation (if it catches on)
You mean like a NAS? They could it if they would get investors to support it. But there were similar projects declined, so I don't know whether it would work.
This is kinda what Resilio and Syncthing does, and man do I want an experience like those two but with Nextcloud. Heck, I don't mind paying for domain or ddns or any of that stuff - I just really don't understand what I'm supposed to as a total noob in networking.
Yes this would be fantastic. They could set it up with noob friendly settings that require zero maintenance and it would be a quick and dirty way for people to detach at least some of their data from megacorporations
TrueNas makes it fairly easy to install on a system and at least use it locally. It can be installed on most PC computer systems. I have mine on old server hardware. If you use the image recognition features, you're going to need some real hardware to run it on, not a RasPi. The data protection features of TrueNas is the biggest reason why I run the 2.
Great video, Nick! As always! I been using NextCloud on my local server for years and it's been amazing! Two things I would like to suggest to anyone wanting to go all in on NextCloud as their main cloud/calendar/contacts/etc service using their own server. 1) setup backups for your files and config files (there's a lot of info about it) I personally have a cronjob that backups everything daily to a another HDD and to an external drive. 2) if you're going to expose your server to the internet, make sure to keep everything up to date and secure (there are pages where you can test the security of your NextCloud server). I run my NC on docker, on a debian box (with no DE), and has been running 24/7 for years! /// Love and respect for all the good people behind NextCloud 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for the tips. Just sharing my setup: old laptop running Nextcloud, using restic to make local encrypted backup of the /var/snap/nextcloud dir, then rclone to upload the encrypted restic repository to my BackblazeB2 bucket. If anything happens to the laptop, I can download the encrypted data from the B2 bucket, decrypt it and restore the nextcloud snap dir. Currently, it is only accessible on my home network. In order to set up external access, I assume I would need to first run the command to create a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate? :-) Have a great day!
@@Scranny Hi, yes I would strongly advice that you create a LE SSL cert first and also make sure to redirect http requests to https (but from what I've read, I think the snap version does this last part automatically after setting up https) personally I use Nginx Proxy Manager, that makes super easy to setup SSL Certificates. Thanks for sharing your setup, that backup plan looks great! Have a lovely week!
I've been using nextcloud for a long time and I deploy it using docker with redis and MariaDB. Easy, flexible and gives you more control. Good to see the improvements.
Performance was one of the reason why I can't use it, if it really is 90% faster, I'm wondering how much resource it uses in docker. Gotta try it at some point
Had a nextcloud instance running for about a year just to sync my photos/contacts/calender events. Hadn't updated it since it first spun up. Just did all the updates and it really looks so much better now. Before it felt really outdated like it came from 2012. Now if actually feels like a normal tech service in 2023. Really hope the nextcloud devs keep it up, big props to them
Eventhough I really like the new Photos app it is still missing some key features that the competition have sorted out a long time ago. For instance images are sorted by date modified, not date taken. This is a problem when you want to scroll through photos and expect them to be ordered chronologically, which they are not. There is an app called Memories which takes a Google Photos like approach and has a timeline but it is not perfect. I would like to see the Nextcloud project to add this functionality. Also the tagging system is not perfect and requires a lot of user input actions when you want to combine tags. I’m a happy user but there are certainly areas that can use some improvements.
I've used Google Photos for years. I don't personally have an issue with Google holding my data, but I was curious about NC regardless. If photos are sorted by data modified that's an immediate deal-breaker for me.
@@clonkex yeah it sucks, i just deployed a nc container with docker and even set up a reverse proxy for it.. all for it to be useless because of no sort by date taken. Do you know any good alternatives to where I can host my photos?
I've been using Nextcloud (from snap on a VPS) for a while and love it. The snap was, as Nic says, really easy to set up, but the problem with the snap is getting the office suite up and running because you also need to install a separate document server and link it, and this is rather above my expertise - I've not spotted any straightforward up-to-date instructions for this. I originally found a hack that got it up and running on the Nexcloud forums, but a few updates ago this stopped working unfortunately. This is really my biggest frustration...
My real problem for moving away from proprietary stuff is I have a lot of stuff in Samsung Notes, specifically handwritten things bc it works so well with the pen on my tablet. NextCloud notes is good, but obv doesn't have that pen/drawing support. Do you know of a project that is an alternative for note taking that supports handwriting? EDIT: In other news, I just got a server set up and am already syncing my phone's photos! One step closer to owning my files again
In the Nextcloud GitHub ‘Notes’ repo, there is issue #669 where support for handwriting is discussed. I think you might be out of luck at this point unfortunately, but it might be worth adding a comment to that thread to show some more interest in support for handwriting.
This new update seems to be heavily inspired by Google's ecosystem: the mail client looks and functions like Gmail, the photos app is similar to Google Photos, the overall design is similar Google's design language, etc.
THANK YOU for mentioning the Snap install option. I've got an Armbian based NAS and the board has very little support anymore, so it's been difficult to get a solid install of Linux running, let alone Nextcloud installed. I tried OMV + Nextcloud as an extra, setting up Nextcloud in Docker, other direct install options, but nothing has worked. Just Snapd it and it's worked right away
Honnestly everyone should use nextcloud nowadays. Associations, entreprises ... There is so much avantages... (Big up au gens français qui passent par là)
People who still use light mode must have stronger eyeballs than me because white is blindingly bright on a modern LCD screen. It looked better on CRTs because they were barely half as bright. I dark mode literally every possible thing I can to not burn out my eyes every time I turn my PC or phone on.
On top of the stuff shown in the video there are at least two other advantages of nextcloud over commercial offerings." 1. In conjunction with a vpn to your home or - if supported - your VPS, you can access your files remotely without exposing your server to the internet directly. Chip pass for Nick to tell us if linode can do this ;) 2. If you selfhost nextcloud on your own hardware there's practically no limit as to how many gigabytes you provide. You can get 3TB hard drives for under 100€. AND you can pump all your data over to your server via rsync, scp, filezilla ... and later add it to the nextcloud database by a relatively simple command. Much faster than upload it to Dropbox if you have anything but the best internet connection.
5:11 yes, and that is my biggest worry and this is why I switched to self hosted nextCloud over two years ago.... never looked back! but now I want to switch my email also to my self hosted home lab.
Great video! Nextcloud now has an all-in-one docker-based package, that is officially supported and comes with all the bells and whistles, like office, talk, backup, antivirus, file indexing and automatic updates. There is no reason to rely on a middleman to maintain your snap packages. I hope we will see more people switch to Nextcloud.
I still can't use the Mail app. It takes upwards of 10 seconds to load the e-mail list, and another 10 or 15 to open a single damn mail. It's unusable.
Hey man, I have learned a helluva lot about Linux on your channel. I'm researching getting away from the apple death grip, and onto graphene and fedora, with TrueNAS / Nextcloud for self-hosted services. Thank you for the educational info! Two questions: Do you know how to replicate apple's "pop up dictionary" feature across mac / iOS? Right click on mac, or long-tap on mobile, and select "look up" is amazing, but I can't find anything for linux / android. That's a bummer. Question 2: Why did you switch from slimbook to tuxedo? [ Better affiliate commissions ;) ? ] Peace bro.
Good question with the dictionary, I know exactly what you are seeking. 2 that I came across for Linux are Artha & GoldenDict. I believe with Artha you can select the word & hit the shortcut key combo to bring up the result. Don’t expect it to look anywhere near as polished as the MacOS implementation though 😊
A question. The thing that would clinch my move to NextCloud for photos is knowing the photo editor is non-destructive, ie that when I change brightness/contrast/filters, etc. the original photo in its original state is also preserved. This is one thing that Apple got right when it launched iCloud Photos about 10 years ago. But I'd much prefer to be on NextCloud for photos!
I tried Nextcloud and did like it reasonably well, but I couldn’t manage the manual install and wasn’t sure I wanted the slow updates of the snap package. Ended up buying a Synology NAS. The software is as good as Nextcloud (and I could install Nextcloud if I wanted to), and my data is locally available and backed up using the backup tools. Probably a bit too expensive when compared to a VPS, but it gets more reasonable the more services you’re using, and especially so since I want to use HomeAssistant.
@@Scranny Yes. Have been using Synology's C2 cloud backup for now. But will switch over to using an equal-sized drive at my parents' place, which will mirror the NAS on an at least weekly basis. Paired with redundancy in the NAS itself and the most important documents (not large files) also being on the PCs I access the NAS from I am not worried about data loss.
sounds like I need to put my private dedicated "gaming PC" server up live again, because this makes me more comfortable sharing stuff with my Nextcloud server! :D the design for Nextcloud was okay, but really needed improvements, and the performance when running on an old PC with a new HDD, it wasn't really good my server has a 4 core/4 thread i5-3570K, DDR3 1600MHz 8GB RAM, and a 2TB WD RED NAS HDD, so it should work well for personal use, but with the previous version of Nextcloud, it wasn't difficulty to understand when the HDD was "sleeping" and when it wasn't because of the loading time
Glad more attention is being brought to deer photography. I'm so proud of my photos I'll even send them to people unsolicited. They rarely appreciate my genius, however.
I looked at Nextcloud and i dont like that one cannot host it oneself over a IP. You need a domain so either it is paying for one or creating one myself but then i cannot just forward that for a moment to let a friend use it and then afterward close it again. Its not really a software for private use instead its for companys.
I was already planning to check out NextCloud and the photo features you mentioned made me even more eager to try it. Trying to move away from Google Drive/Photos as much as possible but still want to be able to share media with family and friends.
Curious, would you ever do a review of the iPhone/Android apps for this? I'm very interested, but I depend a lot on the mobile experience, so I'm curious how good that is compared with the desktop experience.
I can suggest to give it a try to "Aves". That is an opensource media manager app for Android/iOS which is meant to be a replacement for a default Gallery/Photos app. It's main and killer feature is that - whatever categorization/organization you're doing for your photos/videos on your mobile - like putting them into different albums or adding tags or descriptions - is getting saved as EXIF information to your photo/video files. Which means you never have to do it again, if you move your photos/videos elsewhere. It is a big problem with Google Photos and iCloud, that whatever metadata updates you're doing in there, will always remain there - so you'll have to redo that from scratch when you decide to leave Google/Apple clouds
@@NoNameAvailable23 sorry mate, my fault. It's only for Android. It's written in Flutter and I wrongly assumed the developer has released it for iOS as well
I've been using nextcloud or opencloud for years to enable file synchronization between my various computers. I've just moved my contacts into nextcloud, having got very frustrated with thunderbird/cardbook sync to google never quite doing what I expected it to. Now, no more surprises. It's weakest support is SMB mounted external filestores, which is the reason I've been forced to swap multiple times between nextcloud or opencloud when one of them breaks this feature.
I am using unraid with a nextcloud docker and cannot seem to get the face recognition app to work. All the documentation for setup uses other distros and the commands I see do not work for me. I am a novice on command line installs and setups so am lost. Any chance you could show a step-by-step on doing this? Thanks.
I gave NC a shot for about a year. I found its mobile apps to be garbage on both Android and iOS. Photo management was terrible if you had to migrate content in, and EXIF indexing was nonexistent. Sharing anything rapidly with anyone outside your NC instance was frustrating, slow and counterintuitive. The setup itself wasn’t awful, but I tired of the intangible costs of being an admin at work AND home. My setup was a bit more complicated because I had my Plex library mounted in NC (so snap wasn’t the best choice for me) and delta backups to Glacier. I put up with icloud now; it’s not great, in fact I sort of hate it; but it’s fast and reliable and simple for my family of iOS users.
Is there any video/article anyone can recommend for the simplest + cheapest way to get a Nextcloud instance running on a spare laptop? The main reason I'm not using Nextcloud is because for non-local access it seems very complicated compared to setting up one of the P2P sync like Syncthing. I have none of the server basic knowledge to even begin to make sense of the steps that aren't just "copy paste this command," so I need all the help I could get for setting up a proper Nextcloud instance I could access when outside of the office/home.
Been considering nextcloud for a while. Just haven't needed to have more than LAN access and getting certs renewed for that was a bit of a pain when I tried it. Maybe it's finally time to give it another shot or see about putting it in a VPS somewhere l.
One important point missing (from my point of view): As the client, is it still not possible to navigate through the files stored only in NextCloud, when you as client are not connected to NextCloud? Besides that, great video & great info. Thanks!
Quick question related to the images: Can it also organize crummy old libraries, find/ditch duplicates? I was trying to use PhotoPrism for that but it overwhelms my little home router by a huge margin - it reboots after a few minutes, its power management must not be enjoying the absolute killshot of raw power. xD It's a friendlyElec NanoPi R6s SBC. However, as PhotoPrism explodes into multiple threads and nextcloud is written with PHP, I wonder if that might result in a more synched, less-hardcore (PhotoPrism, written in Go, eats every thread it gets xD) workflow? But I would absolutely need to have it also be able to organize my files. This is very, very cruicial. Thanks!
Hi Nick, I have a few comments about things that suck. Remember - you asked for it! 😂 But first some positive stuff. Your video is very well made and your message comes across perfectly. The sound, picture and lighting works well (I have been working in TV for more than 25 years). You have a good video description with chapters, so it is easy to see that you are putting a lot of work in this! Thank you for doing this. I am always looking forward to see your videos. So - back to the other stuff 😀 Regarding your sponsor - If I understood it correct, the service you mention is not free. Same as "Buy one, get one free". It is misleading and false. If you have to pay anything at all, it is not free. It is a discount. In Norway, it is even illegal to use this in marketing. So to keep things straight, it might be better to avoid the word free. Then to my biggest bone to pick with anyone talking about Nextcloud. I have been running Nextcloud on my own little server and like it a lot. But it is not a replacement for Google or Apple. Period. The main way in to the Google universe for many (maybe for most people) is mail. Mail is still a huge part of our life and most businesses I know rely on a stable mail account. Google can provide this. In addition, Gmail is a very effective spam filter as they get millions of email every day and can see patterns and block a ton of spam without us even knowing. You can even have your own domain with your own email address, use Gmail to get all the mail via POP3 and when you send mail, use your own SMTP so your contacts don't know you are using Gmail. And you get 15GB storage for free. Then I can connect to Gmail with Thunderbird to read my mail using IMAP. You might say - but Nextcloud has mail. No. It. Does. Not. This is one of the biggest scams in the marketing of Nextcloud. There is no mail in Nextcloud. And until it has mail, it will never be a replacement for Google or Apple. It is something that should be pushed in every review or update of Nextcloud. You and anyone else should repeat this every time until Nextcloud come up with a really good solution. So what does Nextcloud have? A webmail interface. Duh. Why do I need that? Every webhost and their mother comes with a webmail interface. Ever heard of Roundcube? It does the same job. And it is already installed on my webhost. If Nextcloud at least could do the same as Gmail does - collect mail from my own domain via POP3 and let me connect to Nextcloud via IMAP using Thunderbird - it would actually be useful! I can always use the SMTP on my webhotel for outgoing mail as this does not use any space on the webhotel. Connecting to my own domain/mailserver via IMAP from Nextcloud is NOT useful. On my Nextcloud server, I can add as much storage I want. On my webhotel, it is extremely limited because storage costs a lot per month. So the whole point is to move the email away from my web/mail server. I don't have money to give 15 GB storage space pr email account. People that makes excuses on behalf of Nextcloud are in my opinion suffering from the same thing as some of my Apple-fan friends. Let us call it the Nextcloud distortion field. Or Stockholm syndrome 🙂 Until you can scold Nexcloud for not having mail, you are under their spell. Email is not difficult. If you can set up your own Nextcloud server, you can definitely do what needs to be done to get your email set up properly. I have heard every argument for why Nextcloud does not have email. It is just as believable as to why iPhone does not use USB-C or any other technology Apple say their customer don't need - until the next version of iPhone. Then they suddenly need it and needs to upgrade. A little about the other things in the update: I am more of a functionality before design kinda person. So most of this update was a big meh for me. The improvement in speed is GREAT and the updates to the photo app is ok enough. But nothing more than that. Until they have mail working, anything else is just meh. Oh - there was one more good thing: The snap package tip was very interesting as long as I can install Nextcloud on one drive and store all userdata on a different drive. I really avoid Docker as the plague and prefer running one service per server. The big problem is always updating. Installing a program and getting it configured is usually not too difficult. making sure it is updated without problems is almost an after thought for some program makers. So if snap package is good, I will definitely try it out (on Ubuntu server). You asked us to write a comment if something sucked. I hope this is what you meant 🤣🤣🤣
Some of this updates look amazing. Does anyone know if the photos will also keep all the metadata? Like the localization where they were taken. I was planning to migrate my photos from Google to Nextcloud but I was going to use something like Photoprism ontop, if Nextcloud does everything by themself.... well, that'd be amazing!
Yes, the metadata is taken over unchanged if available. If you install the app Memories, you even have an (basic) Exif editor with which you can adjust them. Unfortunately without batch processing, e.g. to adjust faulty metadata in one go. Besides date and time, you can change or ask for copyright notes or camera model etc., as well as GPS data. This then allows you to view all photos at their shooting location on the map in the Maps app, for example. Very cool. Since most SLR cameras do not automatically record GPS data, it makes sense to add it manually in the Exif data. But it's even easier to store the photos directly in Maps at the desired position.
Would nextcloud snap be reliable and stable when used for lots of files (music, photos, archives)? I know it depends on the hardware, but I'm not sure the snap version is very stable. Unfortunately, all other ways (including docker) are too complicated for me.
I'd really appreciate it if someone can answer these two questions. I have a Synology box and it has about 8 TB of drives 1. Can it work with nextcloud? 2. Do I have to pay nextcloud if I'm using my own storage/server (Synology if it works)?
I’ve been trying to get nextcloudpi to work but every time something goes wrong with getting it to work outside of my network 😭 I can’t afford a VPS so I’m just stuck in limbo land
I don’t know if you’ve done one yet, but it would be nice to have a video tutorial on how to get all this set up. What you have sounds like a dream, I’d be willing to pay linode to host me one, but getting it up and running, seems a little daunting.
I have running Nextcloud for a couple of months. I run it under Ubuntu using snap, on a Raspberry Pi 4, booting directly from a 4TB USB disk. Very satisfied. One thing has been on my mind for a while: What is the best way of backing up the server and all the data stored on the server. Currently I just make sure I have synced all files to multiple client computers. What I would like is to have a separate Raspberry Pi (at a different geographical location), mirroring my main Nextcloud instance. Any advice or hints?
A word of caution about Linode. I have used them for years and have my mail server hosted there, which currently uses postfixadmin and dovecot. I am migrating to Nextcloud. However, on new servers Linode has blocked all the ports you need to run a mailserver becausen of abuse by some users. This only applies to new servers, any old servers you have should work OK. Apparently it's possible to ask Linode not to block the ports you need to run a mailserver. For the moment I have Nextcloud installed on a new Linode server, but it uses the old server for Postfix and Dovecot. I am hoping that Linode will unblock the ports I need on my new Nextcloud server so I can have everything I need on a single server.
For email I still prefer the SnappyMail app over the "native" Nextcloud mail app. Beyond that, it's absolutely great for small/home use. Not so great if you do have a large installation.
I use snappymail aswell. However, it never worked for me to import ics attachements directly to the calendar. Which is pretty annoying. Is this supposed to work?
Hum... I tried NC a few times along the years, it never really convinced me (yeah, somewhat slow, bad photos management, confuse UI, and so on). But the description you made, makes me rethink: I will try again, on my *Yunohost* machine.
Nick: "I peaked in my 20s and it's all been downhill from there." Me: "...If you peaked in your 20s you must've been the most attractive man alive, because both my girlfriend and I agree you're quite attractive now."
Since you do so often Tuxedo sponsorships, can you please tell them that it would be nice if they could make a Laptop with a dedicated AMD GPU, maybe for their next generation?
I would love to use nextcloud. The problem is, I don't have the £400 required to get decent storage on a server. 256GB isn't bad, but isn't really what I'm looking for. I'd want a solution with at least 1TB of storage... And so far, I don't have that.
@@tobiasheath529 they have that on Christmas or blackweek or then and when when there are holidays. On Christmas there were 500 GB for ~120 Euro (lifetime).
I was using nextcloud but now I had to switch to syncthing. My main requirement was the file sync which Nextcloud is terrible at (in mobile aka Android)
But can you share a link to a document with anyone to collaborate on it at the same time. Google docs is one of the Google services that will be very hard for me to leave
Does anyone know a good way of using a nextcloud app as a shopping list (with a mobile app)? Both tasks and deck feel too heavy for this. I just want a simple list with checkboxes, like Denkzettel or Google Keep.
I like NextCloud but iCloud "just works" if you're in the Apple ecosystem. At least for syncing settings and photo backups. No need to open any app to sync/backup etc.
Salut donc je voudrais savoir quel thème vous utilisez sur nextcloud (comment vous faites pour avoir cet effet accent color un peut comme sur zorin) ou alors si vous pouviez faire une espèce de vidéo "my nextcloud setup" parce que j'aimerais vraiment bien avoir votre configuration
I have to say that I hosted my own Nextcloud and it worked fairly well (mostly used it for files). But then after a critical hardware crash I installed a newer version and found it to be really buggy. In fact I could never allow my proper hostname, the example file provided does not work and other examples I found on the web didn't either. The autoupdater is also broken, and at that point I just gave up.
I use NC since years now but one thing bothers me extremely, the lack of integration in other systems and apps. Specifically in Foss software. And the NC android app is horrible slow that it's no fun to use. And I wish the linux client would also support on demand sync like the windows version.
ProtonMail isn't free but offers a Google Drive alternative privacy oriented experience with their new Proton Drive. I was grandfathered into this service and they gave me 500GB of storage just because they could.
That looks really good. Funny that I've been looking for a way to back up my files easily and to have a FOSS alternative to Google services (I use their calendar and tasks app in addition to Gmail and TH-cam) and kinda forgot that Nextcloud existed. I'm gonna install it to my server that's been hanging around for a while now.
WOW - I’d seen NextCloud referenced a lot but it didn’t appeal (software looked like janky NAS but in the Cloud) - these features make it worth considering esp. in a Small-Med Business setting
Hi, nick! I've wanted to use linode for a while but i fin it's price calculator quite confusing. What plan would you recommend for hosting nextcloud and how much does it cost you? I assume you're using the $20 4gb and 2 core plan but don't know how much storage you would recommend and if you also added the $5 backup
I added the 2$ backup and didn’t add extra storage (didn’t need to). If you need more storage, I’d say keep the base Linode that works for you, and add block storage, that’s less expensive than upgrading the CPU count
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Can you mount NextCloud? My 1 reason to use google drive
Are you reading Fate Strange Fake?
Hi Nick!
Don't know if you are interested in this but you revealed your Gmail address while describing some themes or something like that...along with your full name (just before min 4:00)
Also, this is my first comment on your channel, so Hi!!
If anyone really likes using a certain piece of FOSS software, please consider donating to the project. Developers spend a lot of time making free and open-source software. Let's support them as a community.
Absolutely!
Totally, though Nextcloud GmbH is also making a solid sum supporting businesses in using their software, similarly to how Red Hat does it. Anyway, their software is great and doesn't hurt to donate some money to it's development.
@@Ma1ne2 Agreed that Nextcloud doesn't really need support from individuals. I really had community projects in mind. For example, at the moment I support Armbian and the OpenBSD Project. It's only about $10 a month, but I hope it helps in some way.
agreed! I just donated to OctoPrint a few minutes ago!
Isn't the last S of 'FOSS' is 'Software'? Do you really have to say 'FOSS software'? Just asking as I'm not really part of the 'FOSS' community.
I think next cloud should ship a nextcloud box that is a plug-and-play private cloud interface for consumers. Heck, id buy that even it it meant paying a little extra. You pay once for the entire setup, no subscriptions. You can upgrade storage as you need instead of paying more for a higher subscription. It may appeal to consumers that don't understand home servers o VPS's. Plus it will generate Next Cloud a ton of cash without relying on donation (if it catches on)
You mean like a NAS? They could it if they would get investors to support it. But there were similar projects declined, so I don't know whether it would work.
Maybe they need to discuss the topic with the folks at System76, develop a partnership.
This is kinda what Resilio and Syncthing does, and man do I want an experience like those two but with Nextcloud. Heck, I don't mind paying for domain or ddns or any of that stuff - I just really don't understand what I'm supposed to as a total noob in networking.
Yes this would be fantastic. They could set it up with noob friendly settings that require zero maintenance and it would be a quick and dirty way for people to detach at least some of their data from megacorporations
TrueNas makes it fairly easy to install on a system and at least use it locally. It can be installed on most PC computer systems. I have mine on old server hardware. If you use the image recognition features, you're going to need some real hardware to run it on, not a RasPi. The data protection features of TrueNas is the biggest reason why I run the 2.
Great video, Nick! As always! I been using NextCloud on my local server for years and it's been amazing! Two things I would like to suggest to anyone wanting to go all in on NextCloud as their main cloud/calendar/contacts/etc service using their own server. 1) setup backups for your files and config files (there's a lot of info about it) I personally have a cronjob that backups everything daily to a another HDD and to an external drive. 2) if you're going to expose your server to the internet, make sure to keep everything up to date and secure (there are pages where you can test the security of your NextCloud server). I run my NC on docker, on a debian box (with no DE), and has been running 24/7 for years! /// Love and respect for all the good people behind NextCloud 👏👏👏👏
I agree. I use pfSense's HA Proxy to protect the NextCloud server. Also I have ACME Let's Encrypt making use of free SSL certs automatically.
Thanks for the tips. Just sharing my setup: old laptop running Nextcloud, using restic to make local encrypted backup of the /var/snap/nextcloud dir, then rclone to upload the encrypted restic repository to my BackblazeB2 bucket. If anything happens to the laptop, I can download the encrypted data from the B2 bucket, decrypt it and restore the nextcloud snap dir. Currently, it is only accessible on my home network. In order to set up external access, I assume I would need to first run the command to create a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate? :-) Have a great day!
@@Scranny Hi, yes I would strongly advice that you create a LE SSL cert first and also make sure to redirect http requests to https (but from what I've read, I think the snap version does this last part automatically after setting up https) personally I use Nginx Proxy Manager, that makes super easy to setup SSL Certificates. Thanks for sharing your setup, that backup plan looks great! Have a lovely week!
The quality of your videos has improved a lot. I love the clean transitions and title cards, and your script is very smooth flowing and well written.
Thanks a lot!
3:31 "I am more of a light theme kinda guy..."
Finally, a 2nd person that prefers light mode too!
What?!? What did I just see in the photos? You actually have other friends than us?
Yes, I’m sorry to admit it 😰
Nah deepfake
I've been using nextcloud for a long time and I deploy it using docker with redis and MariaDB. Easy, flexible and gives you more control. Good to see the improvements.
This video is great. I had just set up my server after the Nextcloud 25 update, so I didn't realize what was added for that update.
It’s a major change!! I had to talk about it, the changes are so good
Thanks!
Performance was one of the reason why I can't use it, if it really is 90% faster, I'm wondering how much resource it uses in docker. Gotta try it at some point
Yeah, it really improved by leaps and bounds here
I selfhost nextcloud on old laptop for a year now and 25 update is a night and day difference in terms of performance.
You need to setup dedicated database and redis to get good performance. There’s a tuning wiki somewhere
@@andrut04 That's actually reassuring
@@szymex22 I saw that was but it wasn't enough, but maybe now
Had a nextcloud instance running for about a year just to sync my photos/contacts/calender events. Hadn't updated it since it first spun up. Just did all the updates and it really looks so much better now. Before it felt really outdated like it came from 2012. Now if actually feels like a normal tech service in 2023. Really hope the nextcloud devs keep it up, big props to them
Eventhough I really like the new Photos app it is still missing some key features that the competition have sorted out a long time ago. For instance images are sorted by date modified, not date taken. This is a problem when you want to scroll through photos and expect them to be ordered chronologically, which they are not. There is an app called Memories which takes a Google Photos like approach and has a timeline but it is not perfect. I would like to see the Nextcloud project to add this functionality. Also the tagging system is not perfect and requires a lot of user input actions when you want to combine tags. I’m a happy user but there are certainly areas that can use some improvements.
This is one of the main reasons I left NC. While I really like the idea they could never deploy a solid EXIF indexing engine.
Also no android calendar simple integration. Iphone has a way to add the calendar but is not the same for Android.
I've used Google Photos for years. I don't personally have an issue with Google holding my data, but I was curious about NC regardless. If photos are sorted by data modified that's an immediate deal-breaker for me.
@@clonkex yeah it sucks, i just deployed a nc container with docker and even set up a reverse proxy for it.. all for it to be useless because of no sort by date taken. Do you know any good alternatives to where I can host my photos?
@@phizlip I don't, unfortunately. I still use Google Photos and haven't looked that closely at other options.
I'm still waiting for an update where it's not written in php, not using docker and not devided to a million services
I absolutely love your sense of humor
I've been using Nextcloud (from snap on a VPS) for a while and love it. The snap was, as Nic says, really easy to set up, but the problem with the snap is getting the office suite up and running because you also need to install a separate document server and link it, and this is rather above my expertise - I've not spotted any straightforward up-to-date instructions for this. I originally found a hack that got it up and running on the Nexcloud forums, but a few updates ago this stopped working unfortunately. This is really my biggest frustration...
it's much easier to install it under docker
6:48, lol to that one wedding shot where the camera holder was focused on the wrong thing XD
I switched to a hosted NC instance two months ago. It's also so much cheaper than google and co. I pay less than 6 bucks a month for 1 TB of storage
WoW, that’s pretty affordable!
Where? that sounds amazing!
@@Ellisscg I use Hetzner where 1TiB costs €5,11/m
Where?
At Hetzner
I have to protect my deer pics at any cost
Deer pics are not for everyone to see
My real problem for moving away from proprietary stuff is I have a lot of stuff in Samsung Notes, specifically handwritten things bc it works so well with the pen on my tablet. NextCloud notes is good, but obv doesn't have that pen/drawing support. Do you know of a project that is an alternative for note taking that supports handwriting?
EDIT: In other news, I just got a server set up and am already syncing my phone's photos! One step closer to owning my files again
In the Nextcloud GitHub ‘Notes’ repo, there is issue #669 where support for handwriting is discussed.
I think you might be out of luck at this point unfortunately, but it might be worth adding a comment to that thread to show some more interest in support for handwriting.
This new update seems to be heavily inspired by Google's ecosystem: the mail client looks and functions like Gmail, the photos app is similar to Google Photos, the overall design is similar Google's design language, etc.
But it doesn't track your whole life
THANK YOU for mentioning the Snap install option. I've got an Armbian based NAS and the board has very little support anymore, so it's been difficult to get a solid install of Linux running, let alone Nextcloud installed. I tried OMV + Nextcloud as an extra, setting up Nextcloud in Docker, other direct install options, but nothing has worked. Just Snapd it and it's worked right away
Honnestly everyone should use nextcloud nowadays. Associations, entreprises ... There is so much avantages... (Big up au gens français qui passent par là)
Absolutely. It’s so good, easy to set up and administer… no reason to waste data on anything else
People who still use light mode must have stronger eyeballs than me because white is blindingly bright on a modern LCD screen. It looked better on CRTs because they were barely half as bright. I dark mode literally every possible thing I can to not burn out my eyes every time I turn my PC or phone on.
On top of the stuff shown in the video there are at least two other advantages of nextcloud over commercial offerings."
1. In conjunction with a vpn to your home or - if supported - your VPS, you can access your files remotely without exposing your server to the internet directly. Chip pass for Nick to tell us if linode can do this ;)
2. If you selfhost nextcloud on your own hardware there's practically no limit as to how many gigabytes you provide. You can get 3TB hard drives for under 100€. AND you can pump all your data over to your server via rsync, scp, filezilla ... and later add it to the nextcloud database by a relatively simple command. Much faster than upload it to Dropbox if you have anything but the best internet connection.
That's one heck of an update. I'm seriously thinking about uses for Nextcloud now, starting with my friend group. Thanks Nick!
5:11 yes, and that is my biggest worry and this is why I switched to self hosted nextCloud over two years ago.... never looked back! but now I want to switch my email also to my self hosted home lab.
Great video!
Nextcloud now has an all-in-one docker-based package, that is officially supported and comes with all the bells and whistles, like office, talk, backup, antivirus, file indexing and automatic updates.
There is no reason to rely on a middleman to maintain your snap packages.
I hope we will see more people switch to Nextcloud.
Yes, there is: one command line install without any maintenance on my part ;)
@@TheLinuxEXP Technically, running the AiO image is a one-liner too 😏
The issue with nextcloud is that THERE IS NO WAY TO SORT PHOTOS BY DATE TAKEN, only by date modified which removes the entire point imo..
Really cool Linux is getting better and better.
I still can't use the Mail app. It takes upwards of 10 seconds to load the e-mail list, and another 10 or 15 to open a single damn mail.
It's unusable.
Weird, it’s nowhere near as slow for me!
Hey man, I have learned a helluva lot about Linux on your channel. I'm researching getting away from the apple death grip, and onto graphene and fedora, with TrueNAS / Nextcloud for self-hosted services. Thank you for the educational info! Two questions: Do you know how to replicate apple's "pop up dictionary" feature across mac / iOS? Right click on mac, or long-tap on mobile, and select "look up" is amazing, but I can't find anything for linux / android. That's a bummer. Question 2: Why did you switch from slimbook to tuxedo? [ Better affiliate commissions ;) ? ] Peace bro.
Good question with the dictionary, I know exactly what you are seeking.
2 that I came across for Linux are Artha & GoldenDict. I believe with Artha you can select the word & hit the shortcut key combo to bring up the result.
Don’t expect it to look anywhere near as polished as the MacOS implementation though 😊
A question. The thing that would clinch my move to NextCloud for photos is knowing the photo editor is non-destructive, ie that when I change brightness/contrast/filters, etc. the original photo in its original state is also preserved. This is one thing that Apple got right when it launched iCloud Photos about 10 years ago. But I'd much prefer to be on NextCloud for photos!
Wow I can't believe that was you 10 years ago. You have grown younger and smarter over the years. Keep up the good work
I tried Nextcloud and did like it reasonably well, but I couldn’t manage the manual install and wasn’t sure I wanted the slow updates of the snap package.
Ended up buying a Synology NAS. The software is as good as Nextcloud (and I could install Nextcloud if I wanted to), and my data is locally available and backed up using the backup tools. Probably a bit too expensive when compared to a VPS, but it gets more reasonable the more services you’re using, and especially so since I want to use HomeAssistant.
Do you backup your NAS externally in case something happens to it?
@@Scranny Yes. Have been using Synology's C2 cloud backup for now. But will switch over to using an equal-sized drive at my parents' place, which will mirror the NAS on an at least weekly basis. Paired with redundancy in the NAS itself and the most important documents (not large files) also being on the PCs I access the NAS from I am not worried about data loss.
sounds like I need to put my private dedicated "gaming PC" server up live again, because this makes me more comfortable sharing stuff with my Nextcloud server! :D
the design for Nextcloud was okay, but really needed improvements, and the performance when running on an old PC with a new HDD, it wasn't really good
my server has a 4 core/4 thread i5-3570K, DDR3 1600MHz 8GB RAM, and a 2TB WD RED NAS HDD, so it should work well for personal use, but with the previous version of Nextcloud, it wasn't difficulty to understand when the HDD was "sleeping" and when it wasn't because of the loading time
Glad more attention is being brought to deer photography. I'm so proud of my photos I'll even send them to people unsolicited. They rarely appreciate my genius, however.
This is the change I've been waiting for. The photo gallery needed organization, now I can switch from pcloud to nextcloud. Lots if clouds
Nextcloud is something I've never considered but after watching your review, I'll certainly try it out. Looks like it ticks all the boxes for me.
I looked at Nextcloud and i dont like that one cannot host it oneself over a IP. You need a domain so either it is paying for one or creating one myself but then i cannot just forward that for a moment to let a friend use it and then afterward close it again.
Its not really a software for private use instead its for companys.
I was already planning to check out NextCloud and the photo features you mentioned made me even more eager to try it. Trying to move away from Google Drive/Photos as much as possible but still want to be able to share media with family and friends.
Great review!!! I’m not sure you forgot something and that is a big compliment given how much was improved in this release 😅
What about manual photo tagging and filtering?
Curious, would you ever do a review of the iPhone/Android apps for this?
I'm very interested, but I depend a lot on the mobile experience, so I'm curious how good that is compared with the desktop experience.
I could!
I can suggest to give it a try to "Aves". That is an opensource media manager app for Android/iOS which is meant to be a replacement for a default Gallery/Photos app. It's main and killer feature is that - whatever categorization/organization you're doing for your photos/videos on your mobile - like putting them into different albums or adding tags or descriptions - is getting saved as EXIF information to your photo/video files. Which means you never have to do it again, if you move your photos/videos elsewhere. It is a big problem with Google Photos and iCloud, that whatever metadata updates you're doing in there, will always remain there - so you'll have to redo that from scratch when you decide to leave Google/Apple clouds
Looked on the iOS App Store. Are you sure that is its name?
@@NoNameAvailable23 sorry mate, my fault. It's only for Android. It's written in Flutter and I wrongly assumed the developer has released it for iOS as well
I've been using nextcloud or opencloud for years to enable file synchronization between my various computers. I've just moved my contacts into nextcloud, having got very frustrated with thunderbird/cardbook sync to google never quite doing what I expected it to. Now, no more surprises. It's weakest support is SMB mounted external filestores, which is the reason I've been forced to swap multiple times between nextcloud or opencloud when one of them breaks this feature.
I am using unraid with a nextcloud docker and cannot seem to get the face recognition app to work. All the documentation for setup uses other distros and the commands I see do not work for me. I am a novice on command line installs and setups so am lost. Any chance you could show a step-by-step on doing this? Thanks.
I gave NC a shot for about a year. I found its mobile apps to be garbage on both Android and iOS. Photo management was terrible if you had to migrate content in, and EXIF indexing was nonexistent. Sharing anything rapidly with anyone outside your NC instance was frustrating, slow and counterintuitive.
The setup itself wasn’t awful, but I tired of the intangible costs of being an admin at work AND home. My setup was a bit more complicated because I had my Plex library mounted in NC (so snap wasn’t the best choice for me) and delta backups to Glacier.
I put up with icloud now; it’s not great, in fact I sort of hate it; but it’s fast and reliable and simple for my family of iOS users.
What browser are you using in the video? Looks nice 😀
Any links to existing videos on how to setup with VPS and snap?
Is there any video/article anyone can recommend for the simplest + cheapest way to get a Nextcloud instance running on a spare laptop? The main reason I'm not using Nextcloud is because for non-local access it seems very complicated compared to setting up one of the P2P sync like Syncthing. I have none of the server basic knowledge to even begin to make sense of the steps that aren't just "copy paste this command," so I need all the help I could get for setting up a proper Nextcloud instance I could access when outside of the office/home.
Does anyone know what game is shown on the computer durning the Tuxedo sponsor segment?
Shadow of the tomb raider ?
@@TheLinuxEXP Thank you so much. Keep up the great work
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Been considering nextcloud for a while. Just haven't needed to have more than LAN access and getting certs renewed for that was a bit of a pain when I tried it.
Maybe it's finally time to give it another shot or see about putting it in a VPS somewhere l.
One important point missing (from my point of view): As the client, is it still not possible to navigate through the files stored only in NextCloud, when you as client are not connected to NextCloud? Besides that, great video & great info. Thanks!
Quick question related to the images: Can it also organize crummy old libraries, find/ditch duplicates? I was trying to use PhotoPrism for that but it overwhelms my little home router by a huge margin - it reboots after a few minutes, its power management must not be enjoying the absolute killshot of raw power. xD It's a friendlyElec NanoPi R6s SBC. However, as PhotoPrism explodes into multiple threads and nextcloud is written with PHP, I wonder if that might result in a more synched, less-hardcore (PhotoPrism, written in Go, eats every thread it gets xD) workflow? But I would absolutely need to have it also be able to organize my files. This is very, very cruicial. Thanks!
You got me into using NextCloud and I'm absolutely loving it. Wanna make a couple of new apps for the store as well, it's a bit lacking
Hi Nick, I have a few comments about things that suck. Remember - you asked for it! 😂
But first some positive stuff. Your video is very well made and your message comes across perfectly. The sound, picture and lighting works well (I have been working in TV for more than 25 years). You have a good video description with chapters, so it is easy to see that you are putting a lot of work in this! Thank you for doing this. I am always looking forward to see your videos.
So - back to the other stuff 😀
Regarding your sponsor - If I understood it correct, the service you mention is not free. Same as "Buy one, get one free". It is misleading and false. If you have to pay anything at all, it is not free. It is a discount. In Norway, it is even illegal to use this in marketing. So to keep things straight, it might be better to avoid the word free.
Then to my biggest bone to pick with anyone talking about Nextcloud. I have been running Nextcloud on my own little server and like it a lot.
But it is not a replacement for Google or Apple. Period.
The main way in to the Google universe for many (maybe for most people) is mail. Mail is still a huge part of our life and most businesses I know rely on a stable mail account. Google can provide this. In addition, Gmail is a very effective spam filter as they get millions of email every day and can see patterns and block a ton of spam without us even knowing.
You can even have your own domain with your own email address, use Gmail to get all the mail via POP3 and when you send mail, use your own SMTP so your contacts don't know you are using Gmail. And you get 15GB storage for free. Then I can connect to Gmail with Thunderbird to read my mail using IMAP.
You might say - but Nextcloud has mail. No. It. Does. Not. This is one of the biggest scams in the marketing of Nextcloud. There is no mail in Nextcloud. And until it has mail, it will never be a replacement for Google or Apple. It is something that should be pushed in every review or update of Nextcloud. You and anyone else should repeat this every time until Nextcloud come up with a really good solution.
So what does Nextcloud have? A webmail interface. Duh. Why do I need that? Every webhost and their mother comes with a webmail interface. Ever heard of Roundcube? It does the same job. And it is already installed on my webhost.
If Nextcloud at least could do the same as Gmail does - collect mail from my own domain via POP3 and let me connect to Nextcloud via IMAP using Thunderbird - it would actually be useful! I can always use the SMTP on my webhotel for outgoing mail as this does not use any space on the webhotel.
Connecting to my own domain/mailserver via IMAP from Nextcloud is NOT useful. On my Nextcloud server, I can add as much storage I want. On my webhotel, it is extremely limited because storage costs a lot per month. So the whole point is to move the email away from my web/mail server. I don't have money to give 15 GB storage space pr email account.
People that makes excuses on behalf of Nextcloud are in my opinion suffering from the same thing as some of my Apple-fan friends. Let us call it the Nextcloud distortion field. Or Stockholm syndrome 🙂 Until you can scold Nexcloud for not having mail, you are under their spell. Email is not difficult. If you can set up your own Nextcloud server, you can definitely do what needs to be done to get your email set up properly. I have heard every argument for why Nextcloud does not have email. It is just as believable as to why iPhone does not use USB-C or any other technology Apple say their customer don't need - until the next version of iPhone. Then they suddenly need it and needs to upgrade.
A little about the other things in the update: I am more of a functionality before design kinda person. So most of this update was a big meh for me. The improvement in speed is GREAT and the updates to the photo app is ok enough. But nothing more than that. Until they have mail working, anything else is just meh.
Oh - there was one more good thing: The snap package tip was very interesting as long as I can install Nextcloud on one drive and store all userdata on a different drive. I really avoid Docker as the plague and prefer running one service per server. The big problem is always updating. Installing a program and getting it configured is usually not too difficult. making sure it is updated without problems is almost an after thought for some program makers. So if snap package is good, I will definitely try it out (on Ubuntu server).
You asked us to write a comment if something sucked. I hope this is what you meant 🤣🤣🤣
Some of this updates look amazing. Does anyone know if the photos will also keep all the metadata? Like the localization where they were taken. I was planning to migrate my photos from Google to Nextcloud but I was going to use something like Photoprism ontop, if Nextcloud does everything by themself.... well, that'd be amazing!
Yes, the metadata is taken over unchanged if available. If you install the app Memories, you even have an (basic) Exif editor with which you can adjust them. Unfortunately without batch processing, e.g. to adjust faulty metadata in one go. Besides date and time, you can change or ask for copyright notes or camera model etc., as well as GPS data. This then allows you to view all photos at their shooting location on the map in the Maps app, for example. Very cool. Since most SLR cameras do not automatically record GPS data, it makes sense to add it manually in the Exif data. But it's even easier to store the photos directly in Maps at the desired position.
Just curious....... what email client do you use? I use Evolution.
Would nextcloud snap be reliable and stable when used for lots of files (music, photos, archives)? I know it depends on the hardware, but I'm not sure the snap version is very stable. Unfortunately, all other ways (including docker) are too complicated for me.
I've used the snap with many terabytes of data and still running smoothly a year later
I'd really appreciate it if someone can answer these two questions. I have a Synology box and it has about 8 TB of drives
1. Can it work with nextcloud?
2. Do I have to pay nextcloud if I'm using my own storage/server (Synology if it works)?
I’ve been trying to get nextcloudpi to work but every time something goes wrong with getting it to work outside of my network 😭 I can’t afford a VPS so I’m just stuck in limbo land
I don’t know if you’ve done one yet, but it would be nice to have a video tutorial on how to get all this set up. What you have sounds like a dream, I’d be willing to pay linode to host me one, but getting it up and running, seems a little daunting.
Proud of that self-made timer 👍
Got some bugs though 🙂
I have running Nextcloud for a couple of months. I run it under Ubuntu using snap, on a Raspberry Pi 4, booting directly from a 4TB USB disk. Very satisfied.
One thing has been on my mind for a while: What is the best way of backing up the server and all the data stored on the server. Currently I just make sure I have synced all files to multiple client computers. What I would like is to have a separate Raspberry Pi (at a different geographical location), mirroring my main Nextcloud instance.
Any advice or hints?
A word of caution about Linode. I have used them for years and have my mail server hosted there, which currently uses postfixadmin and dovecot. I am migrating to Nextcloud. However, on new servers Linode has blocked all the ports you need to run a mailserver becausen of abuse by some users. This only applies to new servers, any old servers you have should work OK. Apparently it's possible to ask Linode not to block the ports you need to run a mailserver. For the moment I have Nextcloud installed on a new Linode server, but it uses the old server for Postfix and Dovecot. I am hoping that Linode will unblock the ports I need on my new Nextcloud server so I can have everything I need on a single server.
For email I still prefer the SnappyMail app over the "native" Nextcloud mail app. Beyond that, it's absolutely great for small/home use. Not so great if you do have a large installation.
I use snappymail aswell. However, it never worked for me to import ics attachements directly to the calendar. Which is pretty annoying. Is this supposed to work?
Hum... I tried NC a few times along the years, it never really convinced me (yeah, somewhat slow, bad photos management, confuse UI, and so on). But the description you made, makes me rethink: I will try again, on my *Yunohost* machine.
Great video, looking forward to updating my NextCloud instance now!
I set up nextcloudpi on armbian yesterday and it has none of this yet.. Might go for the snap instead
The snap is up to date, yeah
Nick: "I peaked in my 20s and it's all been downhill from there."
Me: "...If you peaked in your 20s you must've been the most attractive man alive, because both my girlfriend and I agree you're quite attractive now."
Hahaha well thanks a lot, but I was definitely better looking when I was younger!
Since you do so often Tuxedo sponsorships, can you please tell them that it would be nice if they could make a Laptop with a dedicated AMD GPU, maybe for their next generation?
I will pass the message to them!
I would love to use nextcloud. The problem is, I don't have the £400 required to get decent storage on a server. 256GB isn't bad, but isn't really what I'm looking for. I'd want a solution with at least 1TB of storage... And so far, I don't have that.
Maybe try pcloud, they have a bargain then and when so that you save 75%
@@KLiNoTweet Sounds excellent. How do you get that? Or is that if you make a new account?
You can get the cheapest VPS (Linode 5$) and link it with a block storage service (Wasabi 5$). There is your 1TB option for 10$.
@@tobiasheath529 they have that on Christmas or blackweek or then and when when there are holidays. On Christmas there were 500 GB for ~120 Euro (lifetime).
Need to self host for that kind of storage capability.
I was using nextcloud but now I had to switch to syncthing. My main requirement was the file sync which Nextcloud is terrible at (in mobile aka Android)
But can you share a link to a document with anyone to collaborate on it at the same time. Google docs is one of the Google services that will be very hard for me to leave
I loved the timer ticking down it looks very good!
Thanks!
Does anyone know a good way of using a nextcloud app as a shopping list (with a mobile app)? Both tasks and deck feel too heavy for this. I just want a simple list with checkboxes, like Denkzettel or Google Keep.
IIRC there is a Nextcloud app you can install that looks like Google keep, but I can’t remember its name
I like NextCloud but iCloud "just works" if you're in the Apple ecosystem. At least for syncing settings and photo backups. No need to open any app to sync/backup etc.
Which browser are you using?
Hey nic can you please show us how to set up next cloud for new Linux users
Is Nextcloud similar to Plex or Jellyfin? What are rhe similarities & differences b/w them?
No, Nextcloud is a replacement for cloud services like Google. Plex and Jellyfin are just media servers :)
any telemetry/spyware/adware?
Salut donc je voudrais savoir quel thème vous utilisez sur nextcloud (comment vous faites pour avoir cet effet accent color un peut comme sur zorin) ou alors si vous pouviez faire une espèce de vidéo "my nextcloud setup" parce que j'aimerais vraiment bien avoir votre configuration
C’est le thème par défaut sur Nextcloud 25 :)
@@TheLinuxEXP oh je vois merci beaucoup il faudrait peut-être que je fasse attention aux mises a jour de temps en temps 😂
Completely unrelated to NextCloud, but what web browser is that in the video? Looks really slick.
13:34 trackpoint?
I have to say that I hosted my own Nextcloud and it worked fairly well (mostly used it for files). But then after a critical hardware crash I installed a newer version and found it to be really buggy. In fact I could never allow my proper hostname, the example file provided does not work and other examples I found on the web didn't either. The autoupdater is also broken, and at that point I just gave up.
That’s why I use the snap. It only auto updates when everything is stable.
I use NC since years now but one thing bothers me extremely, the lack of integration in other systems and apps. Specifically in Foss software. And the NC android app is horrible slow that it's no fun to use. And I wish the linux client would also support on demand sync like the windows version.
This is really cool, I'll have to set it up on my server and give it a try.
does anybody know how to run nextcloud via ipv6 on truenas core?
Can you please create a video about how to create a mail service for nextcloud and how to properly integrate it.
ProtonMail isn't free but offers a Google Drive alternative privacy oriented experience with their new Proton Drive. I was grandfathered into this service and they gave me 500GB of storage just because they could.
I'm proud of you Nick :)
(The timer is beautiful)
I wish the local installation on a desktop was easy. A no go for me on arch based distro.
That looks really good. Funny that I've been looking for a way to back up my files easily and to have a FOSS alternative to Google services (I use their calendar and tasks app in addition to Gmail and TH-cam) and kinda forgot that Nextcloud existed. I'm gonna install it to my server that's been hanging around for a while now.
WOW - I’d seen NextCloud referenced a lot but it didn’t appeal (software looked like janky NAS but in the Cloud) - these features make it worth considering esp. in a Small-Med Business setting
That 60 second timer is really cool, I'm proud of you. ...son?
Hahaha thanks 😂
Really informative and useful summary. Thanks!
I run the snap version of nextcloud but i’ve had trouble getting the office feature to work. Anyone else had this issue?
Hi, nick! I've wanted to use linode for a while but i fin it's price calculator quite confusing. What plan would you recommend for hosting nextcloud and how much does it cost you? I assume you're using the $20 4gb and 2 core plan but don't know how much storage you would recommend and if you also added the $5 backup
I added the 2$ backup and didn’t add extra storage (didn’t need to). If you need more storage, I’d say keep the base Linode that works for you, and add block storage, that’s less expensive than upgrading the CPU count
Cool. When my home server is done I will probably install it.