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Which of the three is best for someone who wants things extremely simple but secure? From what I can tell CasaOS is the simplest, but Cosmos is the most secure, and I think Yunohost falls in the middle?

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've seen the chart, but the problem is I don't understand the point of some of the things in the chart. The installation instructions are also kind of lacking since I don't understand Docker well, but it just says to install Cosmos via Docker. I could take a couple of days to learn all this and sacrifice my limited family time, for something I think has a potential benefit, or I could just install one of the other two.

If those features are extremely useful and important, then yes, I'll have to learn it and I guess that makes Cosmos the best choice. If they're not really needed, then I guess I should pick one of the other two.

Mostly I'll be running Jellyfish, file storage and retrieval, and eventually probably something for Valetudo in the future. Also considering putting Waydroid in there somehow to run Stube on the TV as well. But would all those features be incredibly important to have something like Cosmos then?

[–] mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Standalone cosmos installation is now recommended instead of the docker container. It's technically still beta, but I've been running it since February and very happy with it. The dev has indicated updates will focus on the standalone installation going forward.

I have found it's made everything vastly easier for me - the marketplace, integrated reverse proxy and URL manager mean you can literally spin many services up with a single click. Yet it has sub-menus for docker env and compose data that allow you to dig deeper into how the containers work if you're interested in it.

https://cosmos-cloud.io/docs/index/ "Install Cosmos as a standalone service"