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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/testdasi on 2025-07-23 16:43:19+00:00.
I have been curious about this and googling doesn't really give me a clear answer either. It seems like every now and then, there would be a post along the line of "I hate Portainer, I prefer x / y / z" (if not explicitly then implicitly). The most common reasons I noticed are it's too complicated and it has too many unnecessary features.
Every time I see one of those posts, I would attempt to try those alternatives out of curiosity and every single time, I went back to Portainer.
The way I see it is the Portainer features I don't use doesn't really matter as it doesn't really use any resource. The feature I use Portainer for (mainly deploying dockers from docker-compose files hosted on git with some basic housekeeping), it does it well. So why switch?
So it feels a bit to me like people hate Portainer more like an anti-establishment sentiment kinda thing than an actual issue. Am I missing something? Were there Synology-like figurative shooting oneself on the foot events?