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
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
You’re right–like I said, an atomic OS has its benefits, and containers are great. They’re just not a place I would point a beginner.
It’s easy for those of us with more experience to forget what the learning curve is like. Sure, there are a handful of people out there who would enjoy starting out with Alpine or Arch, but there’s good reason most people start with Fedora or Mint or Ubuntu.
Maybe I misread his experience.
When I started with Linux, I started with Ubuntu in 2005.
But when I started self hosting, which was just last year, I went straight to MicroOS and podman and never regretted it.
Well, that’s my recommendation at least. In the end, either will work.