I read of some users who have decided that running apps within TrueNas is too buggy and/or limiting and instead they run things on their home server on their own. What are they running these aps in then? ProxMox with individual OS for each service? I’m using Tailscale, Pi-Hole, and have a plex server I want to move from a desktop to this home server I am building.
I mean, I’m not 100% on the question here.
Are you asking if apps are buggy in TrueNAS? Work fine for me, is the short answer.
For a longer answer; someone will always have some sort of issue eventually. If you look at the forums, you’ll see lots of reports of various issues because people want help to fix them. On the other hand - I can’t imagine a world where anyone would waste their time to post that “everything is working great” every time they are happy.
If you’re asking if those specifics apps are working well on TruenNAS, I can confirm that at least Plex works great for me (I don’t have need for the others), even though there are posts where folks have had issues & the community helped them resolve them. I guess you can use the search feature for tailscale and pihole & see if recent releases have any major flaws for you, because 100% someone would post & ask for help. There is also always the option of manually installing instead of using the community catalogue, though that may require some effort being using the GUI.
If you’re asking for recommendations on what kind of OS to run for your server? It would depend on if you want to focus on something that is excellent for storing your data (assuming your build and configuration have been done correctly by you), but also has to secondary consideration of deploying docker apps and vms; if so TrueNAS is a good choice.
Otherwise if you just want some docker apps working, that can be accomplished by your preferred flavour of linux distro, apt install docker compose & then you go to town. I guess this’d be the answer to what are other folks running instead if they weren’t happy with TrueNAS? Though I doubt there’d be any need for individual machines or vms if there was a base understanding of how docker works, unless there was a VERY specific result that needed to be achieved, one beyond my imagination.
Either way though, at the very least, there is some hands on work to configure things correctly on each app that might not be intuitive no matter which option you pick.
Hopefully I managed to answer something for you here.
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