Hello fellow selfhosters! I have a laptop and a tablet (both running endeavourOS), and I want a certain folder to be always in sync. I also have a very potato server.
My two options currently are Nextcloud and Syncthing. The laptop and the tablet are rarely online at the same time, so I need the server as middleman (so, no syncthing laptop <-> tablet, but laptop <-> server <-> tablet).

Which one do you recommend? The power consumption (of the client) is also very important, because both the laptop and the tablet are battery-powered

I’m also open to other options as well!

thanks in advance to everyone!

Edit: thanks to everyone for your precious help! I finally set up syncthing and it’s working flawlessly!

  • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
    101·
    5 months ago

    I hate Nextcloud and will recommend OwnCloud. NC is such a clusterfuck of a UI and full of abandoned third party software.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for sharing that. My job set up NextCloud for cloud sharing and I thought it was pretty cool. Tried to set it up at home for sharing on a home network with my family and felt really confused. Every week there was a new problem that I had to solve and ended up going back just network drives and sharing.

        • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Seafile is great. So fast, and unlike a bunch of these options, won’t sync everything to each node. Everything is reachable from each device with a client, but only downloads what you want from the server. If Syncthing could do that without needing to do a bunch of “ignore” manipulation, I’d switch. But for my needs, Seafile is where it’s at.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Yeah NextCloud is certainly more capable. And if you ONLY installed Nextcloud, it might be worth the time to try and figure it out. But it’s also kinda the same situation as Synology or QNAP where you are limited to a specific ecosystem and there are many much better products outside of it that accomplish the same goals.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Isn’t nextcloud the “evolution” of owncloud? Except for the UI, are their performance similar?

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Not necessarily. It’s a fork of OC but with more features and a completely different UI. Supposed to be more like the Google “suite” of products rather than OC which is more like just Google Drive.