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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I know linux isn’t for everyone, but self hosting on windows is self-inflicted punishment. It’s just not the right platform. Sure it’s doable, but it’s death by a thousand papercuts.
also Ubuntu will add more complexity to things, Debian will cover most of what you need.
How so?
Windows is just not ready for this stuff. Most of this stuff is built for Linux. Linux is THE server OS. And windows is painful for developers too, so there’s less solutions for it.
You’ll be a lot better off with Linux for self hosting.
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.
I would say that your self inflicted punishment is using windows. Switch to debian and thank me in six months
I respect your opinion, but I’ll pass
To put it another way, you’re having difficulty staying motivated to ride your bicycle with square wheels.
“You should try using round wheels.”
“No.”
Have you considered Docker?
Well then maybe you should also pass on making generalizations about selfhosting?
What generalization? You mean the widely accepted pain that comes from it?
It’s a lot more painful if you don’t know what you’re doing and disregard good advice.
None of this should have been a hassle, to be honest. Even if you were taking the hard route there.
Instead of this post why not try asking for help with what you’re stuck on?
It’d be an obnoxiously long comment chain, plus its starting to feel like its not worth the effort. I’ve found some Windows alternatives to the stuff I was trying to do since I made the point which has been great! Still missing some functionality, but its better than what I was doing a few hours ago
Absolutely do not do this on windows. It makes everything a nightmare. Bare metal install ubuntu server and install docker/portainer. Its 5 copy pasted commands and you never have to look at the terminal ever again if you don’t want to.
