• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I mean, true…but I don’t think the average user is paying for the service rather than they’re paying for not having to worry about setting up everything needed to get syncthing working.

    I don’t consider myself a luddite in any way, but within five seconds of reading syncthing’s install instructions even I basically just said, “yeah…no.” And I say that AS a nearly 12 year semi-advanced linux user. It’s not that it’s difficult. But difficult enough to not be worth it for the average person.

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      6 months ago

      but within five seconds of reading syncthing’s install instructions even I basically just said, “yeah…no.”

      Install instructions: download tarball, unpack, run. Done.

      Did I miss something?
      Autostart at system startup can be done with the basic utilities of the OS.
      Windows: scheduled tasks. Systemd/Linux: they have a basic service file that you just have to drop in the right folder, and run 2 commands (start, enable).
      Piece of cake. Not telling this because I already know how these work, but because as I remember, these steps are documented.

      • TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 months ago

        Eh, there’s always something people with a lot of tech knowledge think are obvious to people without a lot of tech knowledge. Just look at the mess that Linux can be.

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          6 months ago

          I don’t consider myself to have a lot of tech knowledge. I’m not working in the field, and there’s lots of things I want to do better than now.

          If you don’t yet know about what is systemd and how does it work, it’s fine. The documentation of the unit files is a bit more complicated than warranted, like, it’s structure is not that readable, but the syncthing documentation helps in what you need to do