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Please for gods sake dont use CasaOS (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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  1. It is a For-profit without any means of Generating income (unlike Truenas or Suse which have a paid enterprise version)
  2. Since there is no way of making money, it is apparent they will pull a Plex and Enshittify once they have the noobs on board
  3. At least it uses docker, so you can export the images, but who knows when this will change
  4. It uses discord as forum. They cant even get themselves to use their own OS to install a matrix server on there.
  5. They are not even Private. Their FAQ literally says „They will try to limit data collection“

You want to use some shitty OS by some shitty company? Go sign your soul to Windows Server you lobotomite

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Casaos is a Chinese commercial "loss leader" software added to tons of Chinese brands. It is not intended to make money by itself, it is intended to sell more home nas market gear like zimaboards.

It's also not an os, despite its claims and confusing terms on Wikipedia.

Last, casaos sends telemetry to Chinese IPs, a fair amount more than most software, based on what I saw with tcpdump alone.

I'm not sure how casaos made its way into the "open source os" space, but none of what you're saying is new.

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