I dunno why but I’m worried that casaos is holding me back from doing greater things I guess? I’m pretty new to self hosting and I discovered casaos from a Minecraft server setup tutorial of all things and it’s been great for me so far and does pretty much everything I need it to do, but I feel like I don’t really have a full understanding of what I can do outside of it, and I don’t really hear many people talk about casaos so I’m like worried it’s just not very good I guess? I’m just looking for ways to improve really.

For reference I just use my server for Minecraft on the occasion, a self hosted obsidian live sync, adguard, and in the future plan on hosting nextcloud. Casaos seems great for that and maybe it’s perfectly fine but I’d just be interested in being more knowledgeable I guess, and aware of any ways to improve.

Just looking at their website makes me not want to use it because it doesn’t give any details as to what it actually is.

Yeah, what is it based on? Debian? Fedora? Something custom?

My systems use openSUSE, and I could switch to Fedora or Debian without much issue if openSUSE dies.

If it’s not clear, I don’t use it. What happens if there’s a critical vulnerability or the project stalls? How would I migrate my stuff to something else? What if I need some wonky software not in the repos?

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