No, I haven’t done anything with startOS, I originally was going to when I built my first but had read that startOS wasn’t recommended if you were running with a hard drive on a homemade system and had Umbrel recommended to me, so that’s what I’ve been running on my first one and I like that, but thought maybe if I build another machine, I’d try startOS but I haven’t really seen anything on their marketplace that was any better than Umbrel with their 100 or so plugins
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I think you have made the right choice. Umbrel was my first and there is a lot of flexibility with them. I installed StartOS about a week ago. They are really different in setup and apps. Umbrel was easier to setup and easier to connect to outside wallets like Zeus or Zap. I still haven’t been able to get Start to connect to an outside wallet.
I checked out the “community marketplace” on Start that someone on your post recommended. There are 19 more apps, but nothing groundbreaking.
All of that just to say Umbrel for the win.