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Is there room for Windows selfhosters? (lemmy.world)

submitted 15 hours ago by GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Many of us started running Windows Server and endpoints with Cisco PIX firewall (am I showing my age here?) but in my case, the cost and substandard tools turned me away. I was running A DLNA server and using WDS (yes, very overkill for home, but fun to learn for work), but then I found TrueNAS (then called FreeNAS) running on BSD. I now run a simple share from there and Kodi on my (Linux and Android) user endpoints. I don't bother with imaging anymore, and use dd for backups to my NAS. My Firewall runs OPNSense (BSD) and I run OpenWRT on two TrendNet WAPs.

I'll never go back to MS. It's just not a welcoming platform from my perspective. Don't even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry "redistributables" constantly required by every tool you try to use.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

dotnet is pretty great, runs great on Linux, and you can ship your executable without a need for an external framework if you want.

Dotnet is also open source, a strongly typed language, a large standard library so it doesn't have the problems of npm, has great performance and is all around the best language out there imo.

Use rust if you need to be closer to the metal, but that's rare.