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Reader supplied reviews for ZimaOS
Average rating
7.3 from 4 review(s)
Version: 1.6.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-20
Country: United States
Votes: 0
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As a beginner to Linux, and familiar with Windows, I needed to find something that could act as a server and storage device. So I investigated as best as I could. The command line installs of some Linux server distributions were undoubtedly very powerful, possibly complicated in management and installation, and beyond my technical prowess.
Then I watched as influencers talked about a simple, clean and capable server that was beginning to make it's mark in the home lab market. It sounded just like what I wanted and more importantly needed. Before I get too deep into everything else, I was certainly impressed that it had its own app library that offered the tools I was looking for. I say tools, you might call them applications.
First and foremost for me was the Immich application. And, while that one available program was ideal for initial plans, there were many others that hold promise, as my plans continue to expand.
Yes, IceWhale is making its mark, at least it did with me and obviously thousands of others. The company's growth and continued focus on goals, is important to me, and makes be feel like I am part of a good, honorable team. Time will tell, but so far, I'm pleased with updates and support forums.
As a newbie, IceWhale with its ZimaOS, is important to me. And, I feel, based on their moving forward, that I am important to IceWhale.
A positive relationship both ways.
Thanks for your hard work, guys and gals.
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Version: 1.6.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-04-18
Country: United States
Votes: 0
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Great improvement. I love ZimaOS, easy to use and a very intuitive interface. IceWhale is ever so slowly improving their software. I run on their devices and on VM's in ProxMox no issues.
It has it's quirks I wish there was more ability to manage security from users to exposed ports. The ports are not much of an issues there are plenty of tools to manage that. Users though that is more difficult. Also like CasaOS you have manage NFS in a CLI. Using CLI is not a problem but you don't know at all that NFS has been enabled unless you it has been.
Overall IceWhale is improving the software slowly but hopefully surely.
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Version: 1.5.4
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-02-05
Votes: 0
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Decent and certainly a step up from CasaOS, which was really lacking storage management options, the app store offers tons of choices of containers to fire up with minimal configuration, and the Win/Mac clients are a nice touch.
It works, it's streamlined, but you will feel the quirks once you try to get it to do push things a little too far - it's no TrueNAS or Unraid here, and that's fine as long as you know what you're getting.
Freemium model, limited in number of users and volumes, but still adequate for small home servers.
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Version: 1.5.3
Rating: 4
Date: 2026-01-07
Votes: 6
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Still a work in progress. Has stylish GUI for the web portal. The Samba file shares work, but some of the containers in their app store dont. The Tailscale container used to work, now trying to open, just opens another portal page, so no Tailscale. The VMM container used to load, but now it just says "app not available". You cannot administer the server from the portal page (no restart/shutdown options).
If you just need a set it and forget it file share server, then its OK, but the rest seems either incomplete, or simply missing things.
There are better options.
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Latest Reviews
Project: ZimaOS
Version: 1.6.0
Rating: 9
Date: 2026-04-20
Votes: 0
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As a beginner to Linux, and familiar with Windows, I needed to find something that could act as a server and storage device. So I investigated as best as I could. The command line installs of some Linux server distributions were undoubtedly very powerful, possibly complicated in management and installation, and beyond my technical prowess.
Then I watched as influencers talked about a simple, clean and capable server that was beginning to make it's mark in the home lab market. It sounded just like what I wanted and more importantly needed. Before I get too deep into everything else, I was certainly impressed that it had its own app library that offered the tools I was looking for. I say tools, you might call them applications.
First and foremost for me was the Immich application. And, while that one available program was ideal for initial plans, there were many others that hold promise, as my plans continue to expand.
Yes, IceWhale is making its mark, at least it did with me and obviously thousands of others. The company's growth and continued focus on goals, is important to me, and makes be feel like I am part of a good, honorable team. Time will tell, but so far, I'm pleased with updates and support forums.
As a newbie, IceWhale with its ZimaOS, is important to me. And, I feel, based on their moving forward, that I am important to IceWhale.
A positive relationship both ways.
Thanks for your hard work, guys and gals.
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Project: ZimaOS
Version: 1.6.0
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-04-18
Votes: 0
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Great improvement. I love ZimaOS, easy to use and a very intuitive interface. IceWhale is ever so slowly improving their software. I run on their devices and on VM's in ProxMox no issues.
It has it's quirks I wish there was more ability to manage security from users to exposed ports. The ports are not much of an issues there are plenty of tools to manage that. Users though that is more difficult. Also like CasaOS you have manage NFS in a CLI. Using CLI is not a problem but you don't know at all that NFS has been enabled unless you it has been.
Overall IceWhale is improving the software slowly but hopefully surely.
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Project: ZimaOS
Version: 1.5.4
Rating: 8
Date: 2026-02-05
Votes: 0
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Decent and certainly a step up from CasaOS, which was really lacking storage management options, the app store offers tons of choices of containers to fire up with minimal configuration, and the Win/Mac clients are a nice touch.
It works, it's streamlined, but you will feel the quirks once you try to get it to do push things a little too far - it's no TrueNAS or Unraid here, and that's fine as long as you know what you're getting.
Freemium model, limited in number of users and volumes, but still adequate for small home servers.
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Project: ZimaOS
Version: 1.5.3
Rating: 4
Date: 2026-01-07
Votes: 6
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Still a work in progress. Has stylish GUI for the web portal. The Samba file shares work, but some of the containers in their app store dont. The Tailscale container used to work, now trying to open, just opens another portal page, so no Tailscale. The VMM container used to load, but now it just says "app not available". You cannot administer the server from the portal page (no restart/shutdown options).
If you just need a set it and forget it file share server, then its OK, but the rest seems either incomplete, or simply missing things.
There are better options.
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