The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month.<p>My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast.<p>What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with open source equivalents of Google Docs, calendaring, contacts, notepads, and a complete "app store". It's all really well built, and you can use as much (or in my case, as little) as you feel like. I thought I'd use none of these apps at all, until I realized that I would really like a Del.icio.us-style [bookmarking app](<a href="https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks" rel="nofollow">https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks</a>), but had no desire to shop around and adopt something that required a fee or might disappear later.<p>At this point, my only criticisms are that I think the installation should be more idiot-friendly, and the UI smells of 2012.<p>For anyone interested in following suit, I picked up an [Odroid-HC1](<a href="https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc1-home-cloud-one/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc1-home-cloud-one/</a>) (a bit like a Raspberry Pi, but much higher disk and network performance, at a similar price point) and [NextcloudPi](<a href="https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/#download" rel="nofollow">https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/#download</a>) (complete Debian + Nextcloud image). It went swimmingly and cost well under a hundred bucks, not counting the 3.5" hard drive.<p>Nextcloud is backed by a corporation that mostly makes its money off support for the German gov't? I think it's an ideal solution for any municipality, non-profit, or small-to-large sized company that for whatever reason doesn't want to go with a commercial cloud.