I dunno why but I’m worried that casaos is holding me back from doing greater things I guess? I’m pretty new to self hosting and I discovered casaos from a Minecraft server setup tutorial of all things and it’s been great for me so far and does pretty much everything I need it to do, but I feel like I don’t really have a full understanding of what I can do outside of it, and I don’t really hear many people talk about casaos so I’m like worried it’s just not very good I guess? I’m just looking for ways to improve really.
For reference I just use my server for Minecraft on the occasion, a self hosted obsidian live sync, adguard, and in the future plan on hosting nextcloud. Casaos seems great for that and maybe it’s perfectly fine but I’d just be interested in being more knowledgeable I guess, and aware of any ways to improve.
From what I understand: CasaOS is simply an abstraction layer and takes away a lot of the manual work.
I agree with you that this shows down learning quite a bit.
I see three ways forward for you:
a) switch to a Linux base system, Debian, arch, nixos, whatever resonates and set up everything from scratch. High learning curve but no more hidden things.
b) same as a but as a separate setup. This is what I would recommend if you have the time and cash. Replicate what’s already working and compare.
c) figure out how to do things manually within the CasaOS framework. Can’t help you there though :)