I was also considering trying out CasaOS/ZimaOS until I came across this.

Finally, I can get rid of Kindle. Time to self-host!

While reviewing Cosmos yesterday, I stumbled upon another operating system called ZimaOS. It’s also pretty interesting.

I really like the concept of Proxmox; however, it’s not for my use case. Mainly running a media server. As you have mentioned, I’m also sceptical about plug-and-play OS. 😅 I just can’t make up my mind.

What are your thoughts on something like Zimaos and Cosmos Cloud?

Thanks for the recommendation. It’s looking pretty interesting. I’m surprised I haven’t heard about it until now. How’s your experience overall? What other OS’s have you tried? I’ve tried Proxmox, then TrueNAS, but I settled on Unraid. (The Unraid server died on me. When I turned it on, I couldn’t access the web UI. Sometimes, when I press the power button, it doesn’t turn on. )

I had a bit of a hiccup with my Unraid server. It wouldn’t turn on, and I got so fed up that I decided to get rid of it. But now, I’m back on the hunt for a new home server OS, and I’m hoping to find one that’s easy to use and has a GUI. If you were in my shoes in 2025, which one would you pick?

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Thanks for the reassurance. I only need a motherboard, RAM, and a GPU. I still have rest of the components.

Thanks for your input. Personally I never had an issue with UGreen products, Personally, I never had an issue with UGreen products; however, you’re right about the proprietary software. You’re locked in a box; you can’t do anything other than what they provide you with.

What are your thoughts on pre-build home servers from eBay?

I have the same case. I still have the drives; however, I sold the rest of the hardware.

That makes sense. I usually like GUI OSes. Other than TrueNas what else do you recommend? Is there any OS that gives you free SSL certificate?

Is it possible to sync freetube between phone and pc?

Without suggestions/predictions and auto-correction it’s unable especially for a lazy user like me. Hopefully someone makes extensions for them.

Flow Launcher is way more powerful, customisable and has plugins support. Power toys run is pretty limited. With flow launcher you can direct search internet queries with your favourite search engine.

A great tool, wish they had a feature that would allow you to add plugins/add-ons such as OCR, GIF Maker etc. Similar to what FlowLauncher offers plugins wise. (FlowLauncher is a FOSS system wide search engine for windows).

100% ShareX is like the grandad of Flameshot

Another thing I was doing was to keep spamming the cancel button.

It happened to me as well. To resolve it, go to Administration > Jobs and apply them all available options. I had multiple issues, including this one, but resetting it from the Jobs page fixed it for me.

It’s not compatible with Linux :/