Nextcloud Talk can it be standalone

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Hi, everyone
Iā€™m learning about Nextcloud Talk - iā€™ve got one question
can it be used stanalone, without all other nextsloud apps and services?

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No i think not. Nextcloud is a ā€œconstruction kitā€. There are a lot of apps but you donā€™t really need to install many. https://apps.nextcloud.com/

But you can minimize the apps of Nextcloud at installation and after that.
Apps that are not used also place only a small load on the system (e.g. only with cron).
Also i think you can not uninstall Nextcloud Files but you can set e.g. the quota to 0 B. :wink:
So the user can not create files. Nextcloud Files becomes useless.

But maybe Nextcloud Talk is not the right application for you. As an alternative, you can take a look at Matrix, Jitsi or BigBlueButton for chat and videoconferencing.

I think Matrix / Synapse comes closest to your request (if you need user accounts and mobile).
On mobile devices you can use different apps e.g. Element (Android, iOS) or SchildiChat (Android).

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Nextcloud Talk is a Nextcloud app. You need to run it on a Nextcloud server. But if you wanted, you could remove some other default apps and just not use it for file storage.

I donā€™t know if the Files app can be removed or disabled? Iā€™ve never heard of anyone trying it.

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Disable Files is not possible. But Talk can be set as default-app and the files-button hidden with css. But the files-app is used for sent files in Talk.

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Thanks everyone for replying.
and whatā€™s the licecing policy in that case, if I need only Talk ?

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You simply canā€™t.

Talk is a nextcloud app, is like if you want the carā€™s windows operating without any battery or enginge.

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Same as always. Free and open source.

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Yes.

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