Questions about OwnCloud

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For the last few months, I have been thinking of setting OwnCloud up, but I'm not sure if the hassle is worth it.

As it stands, my Raspberry Pi is sitting comfortably on my desk, with the only way to access the files on it being though the local network. While that has obvious security benefits (in that, the chances of it being accessed by anyone other than me are nonexistent), the only downside is that I need to be connected to my WiFi in order to access it.

The only trouble this has caused me, is that while transferring files to it through my phone (Yay Solid Explorer), I have had to pause the file transfers occasionally.

Hence my considering setting up OwnCloud. Besides the files which I am constantly placing on my Pi to get back to later, a bunch of other apps which I use have OwnCloud as a backup source.

I think what's stopping me from seriously considering moving to OwnCloud though, is that unless someone develops an OS which can connect fully to OwnCloud, it will never fully replace Google Drive.

So my questions are as follows:

Firstly, do any meh-mbers looking at this thread have any experience with OwnCloud?

Secondly, if you do, is it worth it for me to set it up?

Thirdly, if I don't want to enable port forwarding, would there be any point in setting OwnCloud up? If I don't, then it would pretty much just be a localized cloud of sorts, which is basically what I have it as right now.