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Ubuntu, but I'm very strongly considering switching out to Debian or Rocky. Ubuntu has a lot of really unnecessary cruft that I think I'd be better off without.
I use Fedora on my laptop now, so going the RHEL/Rocky/Alma route for my servers is really tempting. Especially as I'm also considering switching to Podman.
Hyper-V / ESXi for host. Mostly windows with some Ubuntu server.
TrueNAS Scale
Ubuntu LTS and k3s for all workloads (except for plex, which I've not gotten around to migrating yet...)
Hello fellow k3s friend!
It's okay. You aren't alone anymore.
arch + docker for the services
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
It's always best to use whatever distro you're most comfortable with. Especially if you're going to install stuff in containers/VMs so the repos of the base distro don't even matter that much.
OpenMediaVault
Good OOTB customizations, works on Pi, and easy to extend with plugins (Docker/Portainer is pretty much all I needed).
Same
I used unraid for a long while. I recently switched to opensuse microos for a better desktop experience, and it's been fantastic
Debian + Docker.
Debian.
Debian
TrueNAS SCALE as host with an Ubuntu LTS VM running Docker containers.
Original I went with only containers running on top of SCALE but both iX and TrueCharts made it harder to run plain Docker Compose on TrueNAS.
Alpine Linux, everything is in containers :)
FreeBSD as main OS with jails and one bhyve vm for docker stuff. And ubuntu server on a dell optiplex micro for jellyfin with hardware transcoding
Right now Debian, but I'll migrate to NixOS pretty soon since it's already running on all of my machines except this server.
Rocky, but I'll probably give Debian a try next time I decide to nuke my install
I'm currently contemplating switching to Rocky. What makes you want to get away from it?
Proxmox for the the hosts, Debian cloud imagen for the VMs and docker inside
Synology DiskStation Manager.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| LTS | Long Term Support software version |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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Ubuntu LTS, but in the process of replacing it with Debian
What benefit do you expect to get from this switch? Just wondering why there are so many Debian over Ubuntu in this thread
Unraid
same
Proxmox (debian) on the hosts, and Debian for all the VMs and Containers.
Just nice and easy to use, supported by basically everything, and a minimal install uses like 30MB of RAM.
I also have an OSX VM because that's literally the only way you can test a website in Safari (fu Apple).
You don't need Safari unless it's for Apple Pay integration or something. WebKit is open source. Use Epiphany or some other browser that uses it.
when vendors pull this kind of crap ill simply not test on their software.
It's more that like 60% of my web traffic is Safari so I want to make sure it works for those people.
thats unexpected, what are you doing thats being used by a majority of apple users?
Perhaps a website for an iOS or Mac app? 😊
Love proxmox. Been using it for nearly a decade and while it has its pain points it has been rock solid for me for the past 4 years.
FreeBSD & 9Front. BSD for my media server and 9front for my web server.
I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.
Windows Hyper-V Server on the host with most of the VM's split between Ubuntu and Debian. I also have two Windows VM's that I keep out of necessity.
TrueNAS Core as main OS and a few jails for the services I run on the machine.
Mythbuntu. It started its life as a MythTV server.