This does look great. I’d love to see a free “home lab” license option without having to sign up for something or create an account. The information on your pricing page could use more detail on the “Did you know? You can start with a free open-source membership through our Members Portal” section.
Is this only for music, or tv shows as well? I find myself shuffling shows a lot and it was nice in Plex to have a smart playlist and exclude shows that had been played in the last X days from the playlist.
Chezmoi has an amazing templating feature to address different files on different machines. It’s worth the time to set up.
You should only have to backup the Postgres database. But it won’t hurt to have a copy of your compose file as well.
This GitHub issue has the steps you should use. And answers all your other questions too.
Arch is great. You’ve kinda dipped your toes in it with Manjaro already. I recently moved to EndeavourOS with BTRFS for my gaming computer and couldn’t be happier. I could have done stock Arch but I honestly didn’t care enough to. EndeavourOS has great sane defaults and no bloat. And you can pick almost any DE during the install. Spin up a VM and give it a try if you can.
I can’t speak to MATLAB though. But all the others you mentioned I also run.
The only issue I have right now is the half screen flickering with GNOME and NVIDIA drivers. But I just ignore it.
I think your approach to monetizing towards companies is great and you should totally do that. As someone that works with an RMM everyday and I’ve tried nearly all the big box ones. They all suck. So seeing something new in this space is great. Especially if it works.
I think restricting the home lab level to 1-3 sites could be a viable path? Maybe even license agreement stating not to be used for business without subscription (you might already do this, I didn’t read the license)? I’d expect that to be hard to enforce though.
I did read a bit about the self compiling and think that’s a good idea and totally could have signed up with an alias email. But for me, when I want to test something I want it to be a quick docker/k3s deploy. Could you publish your docker containers for home lab, maybe restricting bare metal installs to a license would deter companies from installing due to most in house IT wanting things on VMs or bare metal.