3 days ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments

Nebuchadnezzar has been using YunoHost for at least half a decade. I am immensely grateful to this software and its maintainers, most importantly because I respect their work, they are politically positioned, and they are very much aligned with the kind of critical perspective I wish all Free Software maintainers had. Nevertheless, YunoHost has its limits. The main one is that by making it super easy and simple to manage a server it forces you to use its logic and its system, most of the time abstracting away a lot of crucial knowledge about the way it works. In essence, the whole structure of YunoHost is very specific and opinionated, and I was never able to truly grasp how it works behind the scenes. Hence, I am moving away from YunoHost for this and a series of other reasons: updates depend on package maintainers and sometimes stay outdated for a long time. some packages break very badly (see Ghost) it’s very hard for someone who is totally new to system administration to…

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