Most of the other commenters do not seem to understand the difference between "low maintenance", "low maintenance by someone very skilled in the art", and "no maintenance".

Things that maintain themselves are amazing and I want more of them in my life. Anything that requires shell commands is out out out. That is for younger people.

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bonzini 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I do that for one thing: Home Assistant, because it's something that I want to customize to provide the best experience for the whole household.

Everything else, I agree and Synology has delivered enough (such a lifetime of 10+ years with full updates) that I am not really happy to try my chances with something else unless the hardware dies.

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Dylan16807 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You're being pretty vague so it's hard to respond to. But if someone suggests some version of Linux and then leaving it alone, that's no maintenance.

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exmadscientist 3 days ago | parent [-]

In my experience, unattended Linux installs tend to rot pretty badly. They're fine for a while, then either some update goes badly wrong (usually of the "well, we expected you to go from v4 to v5, but we never tested v2 to v5" variety, far down some dependency chain) and requires heroic skills to recover; or the system just point-blank refuses to update after a while, again requiring heroic skills to recover. FreeBSD has been better for me once running, but requires more work for initial setup.

So, no, my experience is that unattended Linux is not really suitable. Your experience may vary.

What I want is something that's more like an appliance than a project. You do not look at your toaster every day and wonder if it needs to perform updates. Or your washing machine. (If you do, please, seek help.) These are appliances. I want an appliance that serves me bits, lots of them, and lets me use multiple machines without caring too much which one has which file. My Synology has, to date, been excellent at that role.

	▲	Dylan16807 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> either some update goes badly wrong [...] or the system just point-blank refuses to update You don't understand, in that post I'm talking about purposefully not updating. At all. Updates can't go wrong if they don't happen. If it refuses to update then you win. > What I want is something that's more like an appliance Yeah, you get it! Set it up and then leave it alone. And don't expose it to the internet.