After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.
So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.
While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.
- Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
- Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
Drive: NextCloud, FileCloud or Synology Drive are options. But your Intel NUC might be past it’s due date if it cant handle something basic like NextCloud.
Meet: Skype and Teams exist for non-selfhosted options. As far as self-hosted options I’m not so sure for something like this.
Next cloud isn’t basic or at least it’s not written in a way that feels basic, you need pretty decent specs to run that and it may be overkill for a lot of people