As others have asked, how does it compare with nextCloud ownCloud? And does it have native clients for the usual suspects? Windows/Mac/Mobile...
That’s all!
Auto updates and I can bet it will not break.
There's lots more to hosting your own file share/sync tool than just standing it up.
He complained about the difficulty of installing an application. He didn’t complain about establishing a personal data center.
That one line will give you the Nextcloud. Exactly one more line in snap will give you a self sign cert. Alternatively, the line below will give you remote access, a domain, and a valid certificate for your application:
curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
You will have a functioning personal Drive on a VPS or a computer at this point!
Toggle snapshots on VPS for backups.
Setting up services with public clouds also takes some steps.
Anyone who wants to seriously use Nextcloud should look into the AIO docker containers or rolling the individual containers themselves. Nextcloud has expanded into a full groupware stack and it's expected you have an actual admin managing the system like with any real deployment of enterprise software
If you need more advanced or fancy/niche features, AIO might be a better though heavier fit (I run an instance of AIO at home, mostly for testing). Snap is lightweight and a bit opinionated (in reasonable ways in my view), and the documentation used to mention some of its limitations. In exchange, you get snappier, more robust installation.
I used a Docker container and it led to so many error messages, having to wipe all the containers and restart, etc.
So I gave up and didn't bother.
Overall it's no WordPress instance that works everywhere.
Running it in Docker made it so much easier to administer (maybe add in the missing db indexes if there's a major version change).
If you want, I can paste my docker-compose.yml for reference as it's relatively complex.