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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've got Docker up and running, but getting anything to work within Docker or getting a machine to access the services that it says are running is a different story

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have worked with Docker/WSL for a number of years and it is more difficult compared to Docker in Linux. There are a lot a unique quirks and bugs that are an absolute pain to deal with.

Would not recommend for any relatively complex use case and certainly not for a server.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like ports aren't forwarded correctly. At least that's a regular problem I have. ss -tunlp shows which ports are open and helps me often to find out if I'm just too dumb again ;D

I do think that if you continue to set up services on Linux (with or without docker), you'll get quickly to a point where setting up a new service takes only a few minutes.