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Are you serious? Syncthing's setup comprises of quite literally two steps:

- getting both devices on the same network

- scan the QR code on one device with another

After that, I've also found that it "just works" on the level of Dropbox or Google Drive. Honestly, I've had more problems trying to get iCloud or OneDrive to work as WebDAV.



Like most things... as soon as you need to deviate from whatever defaults are setup, a really well thought out option/config design wins.

I find Syncthing not very intuitive for anything beyond the default setup. Nonetheless, it's a great tool!


Absolutely serious. I’m puzzled by your assertion that it’s easy. I guess you were lucky and it just worked. It didn’t for me - files started getting duplicated and corrupted in weird ways. The completely awful UI made it really confusing trying to figure out what was going on, and there was no support. It’s clearly a tool for power users and enthusiasts. I went back to Dropbox because I wanted something that just works.




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