I think you would be fine just installing the apps in TrueNAS. You can have snapshots, you can have remote backup with e.g. StorJ and updating is so easy. I was also doing stuff manually but eventually found out that it’s not worth it. And realistically I won’t stop using TrueNAS anytime soon.

WHAT?

Its your right of course. I think, though, that internet is often amplifying even the tiniest negative things while forgeting all good stuff (not limited to TrueNAS). I hate such culture, especially when the people (not you, in general) then go and use stuff like Twitter and similar. I mean how is it that people witch hunt this incredible free product they are getting, no strings attached and at the same time doom scroll tik tok or use WhatsApp or have windows or mac… You get the gist. I wish internet echo chambered also the positive stuff… I’ll stop rambling, sigh, sorry…

As started in other comments, TrueNAS is staying open source, only the build system is going closed source because some company was ripping them off and removing license. But the OS system itself can’t go closed source because of the gpl license.

So no need to move away if you like it.

I bough old FUJITSU Desktop (ESPRIMO D757/E90+) its ~2017 has 4 pcie. I bough cheap 3 ethernet NICs and 1 wi-fi on a maketplace/bazar and installed openWRT. Actually I installed proxmox and openWRT in a VM so that I can use that computer for other networking stuff like AdGuard, Tailscale, etc… Btw if you do this be careful which wifi you buy, not everything is easy to setup on OpenWRT.

That would be awesome! Anyway good luck and have fun developing it, it’s interesting project 😊

You might want to check Ente Auth. Not sure how many checkboxes it ticks for you but I know people are quite happy with it.

Nice, and interesting. I would reconsider the name though. Its hitting way too close to google. I know that was the intention, but I think you will be in google’s shadow because of it.

Fedora just works for me in every case except NAS where I have TrueNAS, so Fedora it is and I installed it even to couple of people and they also like it.

I will teach you a trick. Login with e.g. github. Create a tailnet. Create new user invite link, use it yourself - you can setup login with passkey to this second user. Promote to admin. Leave with your github user. Voila you have an account and tailnet with only passkey, no big brother oauth or anything.