I’m looking to turn an old laptop into a home server. What distros make sense to use for that? Use a server dedicated distro like Ubuntu Server or is a regular desktop environment like Mint fine too?

Edit: TL;DR use Debian

  • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Anything really. Just use Docker/Podman or LXC and then the base OS won’t matter.

    • Ubuntu is still fine
    • Debian I have personally used and it is good
    • I used openSUSE Slowroll for a while as well
    • Fedora server is just as good as RHEL derivatives IMO

    Next thing I am looking at is secureblue for Fedora CoreOS. Security matters and a rock solid base with hardened defaults is really nice. It also is Atomic and because it is effectively just CoreOS, you install it with a JSON file (I think). Using the provided example butane file it took like 30 seconds to install. Now I need to customize it further.

    • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      I recently installed Fedora Server 43 and ran into dozens of problems with Docker and SE Linux. Not sure if others have had similar problems, but I ended up switching to Yunohost (but I don’t like it much).