Edit: wow, this is a never ending comment section!

  • harsh3466@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 months ago

    Ubuntu LTS, with all my services in Docker containers.

    I know Ubuntu gets a lot of (deserved) hate for some of the shit Canonical pulls, but for now, I like Ubuntu and it works for me.

    When I rebuilt my server at the beginning of the month, I was gonna jump to Debian, but my god the Debian website is obtuse. After looking at the site and trying to determine what to download to get Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card), I decided to go with Ubuntu. I needed a smooth rebuild process and with Ubuntu I know exactly what I’ll get when I download the LTS server.

    Edit: grammar

    • krash@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      I went with Ubuntu server and was pleasantly surprised when it offered to pull my pubkey off my github profile for ssh. A nice touch that I haven’t seen in other servers flavors of various distros.

    • PHLAK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I am super impressed with Arch on my home servers. People seem to think “rolling” means “unstable” but the only issues I’ve had were due to some weird hardware incompatibility with my motherboard. Once I replaced the mobo my system has been rock solid AND reasonably up-to-date (I do use LTS kernel).

      • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        I felt the exact same way. So many comments online told me that running Arch as a home NAS was insane, but after the Jupiter Broadcasting guys did it without much issue, I decided to give it a go and was pleasantly surprised. I think if most of your stuff is running in Docker and you have BTRFS snapshots for your root filesystem, the system’s pretty much bullet proof. The rolling updates also mean you’ll never have huge upgrade cycles that are a pain in the ass to migrate to. You’re always just dealing with small manageable fires instead of large complicated ones and that’s a plus.

  • capital@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    10 months ago

    Ubuntu Server with docker/docker-compose on top.

    So many guides for Ubuntu specifically makes reading up on something a lot easier and it works just fine.

  • ndupont@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor

  • april@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I’m running FreeBSD I actually like it a lot.

    I picked it for zfs. A lot of the ways things work seem cleaner and simpler than on Linux and zfs is awesome with the copy on write snapshots and filesystem compression and all that. I like rc.conf and pf is way nicer than iptables and even when you upgrade it automatically makes a snapshot so you can rollback.

    Sometimes I do need to patch and compile things because people seem to not know freebsd exists but that’s really the only downside.