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

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    And possibly more clock-cycles, leading to higher energy usage.
    And maybe even more RAM.