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

  • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    Debian still exists today because of the stability provided by older-but-perfectly-fucntional packages. Older ≠ bad