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It's Hard to Stay Motivated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I got Jellyfin up and running, it's 10/10. I love this thing, and it reinvigorated my love for watching movies. So I decided to tackle all the other services I wanted, starting with Paperless-ngx...

What a nightmare. It doesn't have a Windows install so I made an Ubuntu VM. Don't get me started on Ubuntu. I just spent about 12hrs trying to get Portainer to cooperate and had to give up. I tried just installing Paperless the "normal way" and had to give up on that too.

My point: if you're getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I don't know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.

Edit: good news! Almost everything I wanted to do is covered by Jellyfin which can be done in Windows.

Edit2: It's been a year, and a lot has changed. I'm currently running a NAS + Ubuntu server. I'm running over a dozen docker containers among other miscellaneous services, and these services are being used by close friends as well. I owe several people apologies for being so quick to dismiss the entire Linux community. I found a few mentors, and now I'm good. To anyone looking for help to get started, you're going to have a much better time in the long run if you join some help groups on Discord (I hate it, but it works).

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[–] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought this too, I hated docker because it was supposed to be the solution of "works on my machine" and the only thing that did for me was force me to learn more configurations besides the configuration of the service you wanted to install.
And as you said, plus the hassle of having to run some Linux distro.
But little by little I had to get deeper into docker and Linux, mainly because of my work, and now I can easily deploy any service in the VPS I have or test it with WSL. I even started dockerizing some of my own flows like building and deploying my own projects with docker.

Believe me, it's worth all the time to learn docker and linux.
Start small, few lines or keywords each day, you won't have everything you want to deploy in a day or two if you don't already know all the technologies.
And remember, if you don't easily find something you can always come to ask in a post and we can try to help you!

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I appreciate the post, but I'm gonna pass on ever using Linux again. I'll just keep my eyes open for when these things get ported to Windows haha because I think I'll puke if I have to type sudo or curl again