After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I've started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.
So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.
While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I'm in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.
- Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
- Drive: In short, If possible, I'd prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it's slow as hell.
It involves spending money, but I wonder whether a Synology NAS might suit you rather well? Synology Drive, Synology Photos et al make a pretty respectable replacement for the Googles.
I have considered NAS, but I always saw it as something for those who have lots of large files to store, like pictures, movies, shows, system backups etc. which I simply don't utilize right now.
It can be whatever you want, if you want it only for documents the disks don't need to be to large, it can even be NAS SSDs (depending your backup model), but considering the office apps requirement I also think synology is a good option.
Just came across xpenology and surprisingly I managed to set it up without a hassle. I think this is my final solution I'll be going with.
The thing that amazed me the most. I could import my GoogleDrive files and it converted them so they work in synology office… Mindblowing!
Thx… I'll have a look into it