Why? NS8 provides a simple UI to configure SME services as NS7 did.
The difference is under the hood, it’s now podman containers instead of distro services which has the advantage of having a cleaner system.
For example, when you uninstalled software on NS7, some artifacts were always left.
Podman is a new layer but I think it’s not too much to learn, see Howto manage or customize NS8 podman containers
If you know how it works it’s possible to customize services as in NS7.
It always depends on the IT knowledge of the person who runs the company. But for NS8 you just need to go to CLI for creating a user to access via SSH and for network configuration and even there is a text UI available. The rest is done in the web UI cluster-admin.
Also the NS7 needed a permanent internet connection? What about mailing, web server and updating etc.?
You need an SSD now, that’s it. Also with Windows servers it’s not always possible to just use the old hardware when you update as the new software may need more resources.
As said, it’s just a bit of podman (only if you want customization). All other things are possible in web UI.
Yes, it’s the same with NS8. Did you ever try it?
It was just one example that on EOL systems updates won’t work anymore at some point.
The solution for an old NS7 is to separate it’s services to new servers? This way you loose the advantage of NethServer, that services are preconfigured to each other. If I need to setup new servers/services it costs resources and time and makes maintenance harder.
I think this is a contradiction to what you want.