Hello everyone,

I am about to renovate my selfhosting setup (software wise). And then thought about how I could help my favourite lemmy community become more active. Since I am still learning many things and am far away from being a sysadmin I don’t (just) want tell my point of view but thought about a series of posts:

Your favourite piece of selfhosting

I thought about asking everyone of you for your favourite piece of software for a specific use case. But we have to start at the bottom:

Operating systems and/or type 1 hypervisors

You don’t have to be an expert or a professional. You don’t even have to be using it. Tell us about your thoughts about one piece of software. Why would you want to try it out? Did you try it out already? What worked great? What didn’t? Where are you stuck right now? What are your next steps? Why do you think it is the best tool for this job? Is it aimed at beginners or veterans?

I am eager to hear about your thoughts and stories in the comments!

And please also give me feedback to this idea in general.

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    A friend recommended me OpenSuse MicroOS, and it has been a great experience!
    It’s a atomic OS designed to be just enough to run containers and it does it perfectly. It updates and reboots itself automatically so I never have to worry about it.
    IMO, perfect for a home environment, just wish the documentation was better.

    • theorangeninja@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I tried MicroOS for a while now and I don’t know if it was my fault but I did not work so smoothly all the time. Maybe because the machine was turned off for a few days in a row. But a couple of times I just couldn’t ssh into the machine or it would not start up at all. Luckily ,ou can roll back and I used that to copy my docker volumes and compose files over. I think about trying NixOS next.