I’m running Casa, but I haven’t opened up network to the world.

I will say, that Casa is simple to a fault. I still haven’t figured a way to easily hook all my -arr services with my vpn container, but I have an old Pi clone running Portainer managing the -arr/vpn connection. That way I know the vpn is setup and the Kill-switch works.

First, they are all solid platforms. Yunohost would be my choice if I were making it again. I don’t exactly know this, but I would think that Yunohost’s app catalog either exceeds or rivals most platforms in this category. They do list broken software separately. I don’t know why, they’ve always done that. I guess it’s for someone who might want to give it a go fixing one. But, their usable app catalog is pretty comprehensive. Both CasaOS and Cosmos have very beautiful UI. Very polished.

I see that cosmos advertises running your apps on a vpn built-in. That might be worth looking into. When I switched to self-hosting everything on my “tailnet” and closed incoming ports, a lot of the nice features of Yunohost for maintaining DNS and certs for the various apps stopped being that useful. In this day and age, I think being able to self-host and experiment within a safe VPN environment instead of on the open internet is the way to go.

I liked Yunohost more than CasaOS or Tipi. It explained every step the way I liked. I never tried Cosmos.

Thanks everyone. I tried ZimaOS (since apparently that’s what CasaOS is now?) but had issues figuring out the -arr services.

Currently trying YunoHost now, though for some reason it says my GMKtec G9 has a MMC/Micro SD?