Yes. rolling your own presents potential additional issues from packages that may not work. It’s one of the trade offs unfortunately.
For anyone who want’s to give rolling their own a try the following post/thread has discussion on how to (try) and do so.
Or one could try one of Fox_Exe’s alternate firmwares.
Clean debian: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVeGtBa1JRellmdXM
Open Media Vault: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVSHdDUnZXZWJBMUk
Or Synology DSM: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVY0hQNUtCTkNkS2M
But those to present their own issues with the first gen My Cloud. And require additional knowledge (and Linux experience) to install to the My Cloud first gen hard drive.
