As long as you don't directly connect it to the internet, it's not hard.
When you do, it does become hard.
this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Immich is amazing until you update and your wife is complaining she can't see her photos.
The most reliable piece of hardware and software I have is my Synology.
Now that it’s in stable release, is it really still the case?
Honestly, the time i had to manually intervene since ~2 years is less then 5-10 times, and that is way before the stable release. So I doubt that.
Don't update anything without a way to restore.
I just rename the immich file, install a new immich instance and copy the data over manually to the new install, deleting the old install file after a week or so
I've had the least buggy experience that way
Immich updating is a dogwater experience
I wouldn't say it's "hard", but taking responsibility for all the photos your wife took of your darling children growing up is... a thing.
Because it is for those who aren't sysadmins or at least amateur Linux enthusiasts. The easiest tools quickly become very hard when something breaks and you got no one who could fix things for you you don't know anything about.
Who are they? Hard for who?
I propose a new title... "This thing I know a lot about is easy!"