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

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    15 hours ago

    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.