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What open-source software would you like more people to know about? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 45 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It's insane how many services sell file synchronisation as a premium feature when syncthing can do it for free and no one seems to use it

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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