After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve talked mad shit about Nextcloud repeatedly. That said, I keep trying it. Almost compelled to make it work for me. This stubbornness lead me to NextcloudPi. And I don’t know what they do to that image/build, but it works very well on my Pi 4 w/4GB. Then I tried it in a docker container on my main server and it ran like trash again. So, ymmv? Easy enough to stand it up for a test though.

    I’m a huge fan of Seafile. It’s the best Google drive/Dropbox replacement, imo. It does support Collabora or Open Office integration as well, but I can’t get that to work. Take that as a sign of me still learning rather than a slight against the product. I will say though, their documentation needs work. It’s quite a mess.

    • adONis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Yeah… NC is really bad. I like the idea of the project, but the stack they chose to write it in, PHP, is just not suitable for such tasks

      • fluckx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I think nextcloud suffers more from carrying along legacy code rather than blaming it on php. There’s tons of stuff written in php that performs well.

        It’s definitely not the right tool for every job, but it’s also not the wrong tool for every job. Which goes for most programming languages. I’ve seen it work fine on high traffic environments. It also carries a legacy reputation from php 5 and before. I haven’t kept up with it much in the last few years though.

        Which nextcloud tasks do you think php is unsuited for? (Genuine question)

        • adONis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I mentioned it in another topic regarding kbin, which is also written in PHP.

          If you run a node/go/rust server and you hit the endpoint /hello which returns a simple “hello world”, they will just return that. PHP however, has to initialize and execute the whole framework stuff, before returning a simple “hello world”.

          So there’s definitely some overhead, which to some degree can be limited by using caching like redis, etc.

    • Moshpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hi! I am also looking for an alternative to Google Docs more oriented to LibreOffice. You said you tried Collabora for ARM64 on Nextcloud, Docker or both?

      • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have NextcloudPi image running on a Pi 4 with a CODE server and Nextcloud Office both installed from the Nextcloud “app store”. This is working great for office type docs.

        I will say I tried to do the same with Nextcloud docker images from linuxserver.io as well as the official AIO image and could not get the Office function to work. Both of those ran horribly on my older server too, so I gave up on them. NextcloudPi seems to be highly optimized and running well on the Pi 4.