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I would like to hear a bit more about the main differences. I tried immich first on a resource constrained system and it was a real pig naturally. PhotoPrism seems to be less resource intensive, but my new AMD Ryzen 7 mini pc is also a lot more powerful than a pi 4.
Im willing to go either way and this one will probably be near the bottom of the list anyway, so I have time to learn more and perhaps change my mind.
Photoprism is less "resource intensive" because it's offloading face detection to a cloud service. There are also many who don't like the arbitrary nature of which features photoprism paywalls behind its premium version.
If you can get past immich's initial face recognition and metadata extraction jobs, it's a much more polished experience, but more importantly it aligns with your goal of getting out of the cloud.
The main difference i would say is the development and licensing model. Photo prism is forcing ppl who want to commit to sign a CLA to.give away their rights. Also the community is not really active it is mainly one dev that can change the code license on any given time.
Immich does not have such an agreement and has a huge active contributor community around it. Also Immich is backed by Futo which has its pros and cons.
Imho the biggest pain in self hosting is when a foss product turns evil towards its community and start to practice anti consumer/free selfhosters business practices.
Immich is far less likely to turn evil.
Edit: I think it is the biggest pain cause you have to migrate every device and person to the new service.
Good insights, thank you for the perspective. I will look into that more closely before committing.