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Unraid is easy to start with when you have no idea what you're doing. Other stuff often requires more up front work to setup.
The paid licence is just the cost of the conveniences.
UnRAID is also great when you know exactly what you’re doing but you do this stuff for work every day and your home stuff you want to be easy and out of the box lol.
My only regret is that I have only one upvote to give this post.
Just because I have the skills to setup a cluster of mini-pcs doesn't mean I want to spend my one-precious-fucking-spare-hour a day making the thing work.
See also: a builder's house, a mechanic's car etc
Same, I'm a Linux user since redhat 5 and more than capable of running all the unraid features on a regular Linux distro or proxmox, truenas, whatever ... I just don't want to, I want flexible disk sizes and a bunch of docker containers, that's it. Unraid offers that in a great package.
Is it much easier than TrueNAS?
I went with TrueNAS because it's open-source, and it's been smooth sailing.
(I just use it as a NAS, nothing more)
I’ve tried both Unraid and TrueNAS. While I greatly prefer TrueNAS, Unraid is much easier to set up and get going for beginners. It’s been a while since I’ve set up TrueNAS from scratch, but last I tried, it wasn’t a very beginner friendly experience. If you weren’t already familiar with ZFS, you were in for a pretty difficult time.