What distro/OS do you run on your server and why?
raspbian
>>107006814> debianIt's small, it has a large package base, so I don't need flatpak on my server, it has systemd, which makes cron and services trivial, and it can run k8s and docker.
>>107006814debian just werks
>>107006814pufferfish wit da big ass lip
>>107006814only cachyos of course!
alpine
>>107006814headless nixosit just werks.
>>107006814DebianIt just works
>>107006814Ubuntu Server LTS. I don't need more.
>>107006814fedora computer good
>>107007665FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I DIDN'T GOT TRIPSWHO STOLE MY TRIPS>>107007666
>>107007665>>107007675figures your vibe coded OS had trips stolen by an AIJeeter. #rekt.
>>107006814Used to use Ubuntu Server, now Proxmox
>>107006814debian. because it is good enough
>>107006814Windows Server, anyone?
>>107007781
>>107007781The Chad choice. Linjeets could never.
When I first had one I used Debian. If I were to need one again, I'd use OpenBSD.
>>107007559>>107008077cuck license
>>107008112I'm not an os dev why the fuck should I care about muh loicense. Nor do I used the propietary offshoots. You schizos need to stop it with the tribal mentality.
>>107006814Debian. I've been running it an upgrading it for a long time. I initially picked it because it was supposed to be stable. It's not really as stable as I would have hoped, updates have broken important things more than once (like virtualization, not some random package everyone forgot exists) and right now I'm still using Debian 12 because after an attempted upgrade to 13 one of my VMs was no longer working and rtorrent would segfault when receiving XMLRPC requests. Kinda disappointing for a distro supposedly famed for its "stability."I haven't debugged either issue and just went back to a backup I took before the upgrade.
>>107006814proxmox on the metal and debian stable in vms
>>107007781somehow even more cucked than OS that ships a literal "cuck" license
nixos
>>107006814Proxmox
5$ vpsUse arch because it just werks and has no bloat hogging ram by default. At the same time has systemd so I can use service files from the internet. Just needed to configure it to delete package cache after each update because otherwise I ran out of space very fast.
>>107006814why would I need to own a server?
whatever my DS220 uses (yes, I'm calling that a server, cope). It's probably Debian based but I'm too lazy to look it up.
>>107006814Ubuntu Server. It was my first time using Linux in over 10 years and I used & enjoyed Ubuntu back then, it was also the only distro I was really aware of at the time. It hasn't died so I haven't switched.
>>107006814proxmox for LXCs
>>107006814Gentoo, since that's what I run on my desktop and gaming machine
debian ofc. I'm still on bookworm btw probably should upgrade soon..
Debian but I've considered an arch based home server on the lts kernel that just doesn't get updated often.
>>107006814arch with pacman in the crontab
>>107006814Debian because of the rutorrent script.
>>107006814Dont remember, but OMV7 for sure.7.7.18-1 (Sandworm) Intel(R) Celeron(R) N5095 @ 2.00GHz Linux 6.12.43+deb12-amd64
7.7.18-1 (Sandworm) Intel(R) Celeron(R) N5095 @ 2.00GHz Linux 6.12.43+deb12-amd64
>>107010040>deb12Ok, I'm stupid...
freebsd and it's mostly because the hardware is so old that newer linux kernels don't even boot on it.
>>107010050>newer linux kernels don't even boot on it.Tiny linux would boot on it, it even can boot on 486 without a math-coprocessor.Also, what would you run on this toaster ?
>>107010086it's just some bullshit NAS i threw together with early 2000s parts. i run navidrome too.
Used to run Ubuntu server lts by default but Im building out a cluster running talos Linux + kubernetes
>>107010090*early 2010s
>>107006814Proxmox, and inside that is OpnSense, since I use my ThinkCenter as my router.
>>107010090>>107010097now that i think about it i just wanted a printing and local dns server first lmao
Gentoo or proxmox. Gentoo cloud images on proxmox. Using gentoo as my router too.Why? Reduced attack vector, familiarity, customization, sane file structure, lack of trannies, lack of normies.Life is good.
>>107006814>ThinkCentre M910AlmaLinux>ThinkCentre M625AlmaLinux>ProLiant DL580 Gen9Xubuntu Minimal (w/Pro features for live kernel patching)The ThinkCentres are mainly for split horizon DNS servers that I manage for a client with weird needs, but I actually own them, so use them to host some of my own services too. Alma is just great. Can't recommend it enough. The Proliant isn't technically mine, and lives a few miles down the road, but I'm the only one who has access to it, and treat it like my own flesh and blood. Xfce comes in handy because I manage some internal services for them on there, and a lot have web interfaces. It also allows me to show the client info about the network and status of running services from a comfy GUI.
>>107006814windows 10
Considering using oracle linux since it's basically just rhel but less of a hassle to obtain since you don't need to mess with dev licenses
>>107010755All the RHEL-compatibles are great. Alma, Oracle, and even Rocky.
>>107008917This.And sometimes I go for Alpine as a guest OS if it's a really simple use case, such as a dedicated Tailscale container.
>>107006814>DebianBeen thinking about moving but I need normies to still be able to reboot the server so it is what it is
SmartOS. It's rock solid, has piss easy updates, inherits a great base system from Solaris, is immutable and runs entirely in RAM, great package selection and an easy build sysyem in native zones due to using NetBSD pkgsrc, easy to reallocate resources on the fly, bhyve HVMs actually run better than on FreeBSD. Runs circles around Proxmox.https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/09/19/freebsd-vs-smartos-whos-faster-for-jails-zones-bhyve/
>>107006814Manjaro ARM
>>107006814literally set it up 1h ago, picked ubuntu just because it's the most popular one
>>107006814rocky linuxrock solid like its name
>>107006814FreeBSD because I like ZFS without license dramaI also like FreeBSD if I don’t have to bother with X
I have a freeBSD install on a machine like this but I was so overwhelmed by learning ZFS and the networking parts when setting up jails, pf.conf and wireguard that it is currently gathering dust. It's a very good system but when you spent years using Docker where you mostly don't have to bother manually setting up firewall rules and bridges and nat or whatever, it's pretty rough. I should probably set up a Debian and get on with my life but I wanted something actually robust with a well-integrated core system.
>>107006814Debian 12
>>107006814>What distro/OS do you run on your servernixos>whyi hate ansible
>>107006814anyone can recommend a thinkcentre model with two drive slots?(either m.2+2.5" sata or 2xm.2)
>>107012579Ansible is the Calibre of the software provisioning solutions
Talos LinuxBecause my workloads are containerised and it's a nice platform for running kubernetes
>>107011125The downside of smartos is that only about 5 people in the whole world use it
Ajnkgm>>107006814Unraid of course
>>107006814Freedos
>>107008041>Windows>The Chad choice
>>107006814Synology NAS Pensacola Florida USA
>>107006814nixos, of course.
>>107013104That's fine, I'm happy to be one of them. Maybe I can get that number to 6 some day.
>>107006814fuck do i need a server for
>>107006814Ubuntu Desktop 24.04
>>107006814MacOS. It's really good as a server OS. Hated it as a desktop tho.
>>107006814>small mini-pc shitbox for a home serverI do this and unironically, i use Windows 10 enterprise LTSC but only because linux tranny devs got their HRT titties in a twist over RTSP copyright and installing packages with RTSP support via snap wasn't an option because snap packages are sandboxed or something.I tried, maybe if i spent more than a day figuring it out i'd have a solution but i decided it wasn't worth the effort.99% of "home server" people wont run into this issue
devuanI used debian before but am too brainlet to configure systemd, hench the switch to devuan
>>107015365lol at trying to use snap at all
>>107010997The spirit of CentOS lives on!
>>107006814Debian and FreeBSD
Alpine, i love OpenRC
>>107009266based retard
>>107006814Windows 2003 Server of course.
>>107016948For me it's NT4 Service Pack 5. That's when servers peaked. Yep.
RHEL on ZFS.>whyI found the FreeNAS UI superfluous and its FreeBSD base too antiquated, but loved ZFS. I wanted to set up each service myself and was already comfortable with RHEL having already used it & Fedora for some years.
>>107006814Depends on the server. All of my shit runs AlmaLinux... except for my webserver which runs Ubuntu.
Debian. It's just the standard
>>107009627yeah same, it also had the largest community to answer simple problems at the time when i first started and need to know a bunch of basic shit. It hasnt missed a beat in that time and i have no reason to change
>>107007781Win Server 2025, fags be coping
>>107006901>systemd >cron you don't need both
>>107018715cron has a better syntax than systemd timers
>>107018715>>107020129https://wiki.debian.org/systemd-cron
>>107006814the only linux I enjoy is fedora.I would never use an os made by some fucking enthusiasts
>>107020144Fedora devs aren't enthusiastic?
>>107020171there is a giant linux first company behind them.every release they ship is as stable as mac or win if not more.I would not rely on some idiots developing mint or arch just for it to break in a critical moment.
>>107006814Proxmox, then Arch under that. You'll understand when you're ready for things to just work.
xigmaNAS cause i fucks wit the name fr
im still looking into stuff, but im probably going to just go with headless debian. i want to like freebsd but its a pain in the ass for non-x86 architectures and i cant get ports to build for the life of me. its very cool how simple it is to build and install custom kernels, though.
>>107020144Fedora now uses AI generated code.
>>107006814Ubuntu server because it's what they use at work and I wanted to familiarise myself with it.Before for that it was debian.
>>107006814>arch linuxso i get the most recent podman, zfs and linux-lts kernelalso use full disk encryption on all drives and ssh to unlock root disk on boot
>>107006814I run one the following distros/osHAOS2x rasp pi4 debian serverswhatever qnap is called
How to self-host with a dynamic IP and separate it from home/work Internet activity?
>>107021631Cloud flare tunnels
>>107021768Fucking Cloudflare?
>>107021631>separate it from home/work Internet activity?why?you only have one wan like you have no options
>>107007642thisplanned to move to something a bit more modern like nixos or void but it's not fucking worth it, Debian just works
>>107021631Dyndns, ddns.net, etc
>>107022102I figured SSH with IDs is safe enough, but email, file-sharing and HTTP are more exposed.>>107022150I had a look, and it's as expensive as some complete shared site hosting.
>>107006814Arch, just because I learned about chroot when installing Arch and find it easy to recover my system with arch-chroot if anything goes wrong. Haven't had to do that in years but that's the reason and now I don't want to change.
>>107006814proxmox because I'm a tryhard.
>>107021631Wow, is 1997 again?
>>107023233I want it to be.
>>107022518protip: arch-chroot is a really simple script which just sets up a regular chroot for you (i.e. mounts /sys, /proc, /dev and binds resolv.conf), you can actually use arch-chroot on linux installations that aren't arch
>>107021631You don't need a ddns host. Just use ddns-updater and have it update your dns records for you when your public IP changes.
>>107021631>How to self-host with a dynamic IPBuy domain, get DDNS software on router, point DDNS software to domain>and separate it from home/work Internet activity?What does that even mean?
>>107023921>What does that even mean?I'm worried about my other devices being vulnerable. Would a VLAN or subnet help with that, or just some firewalling?
>>107023995Just try to limit the number of services you run on your ports. For personal remote access to your network just use Wireguard, since it requires a correct encryption key to even connect. For anything that requires to be open to the Internet, like a Matrix/XMPP server, don't leave things like online registration enabled, and keep the server software updated, I guess.
>>107024170(I understand this is kind of hijacking the thread now) Wireguard's better than SSH with keys because of cryptography I'm guessing?I was thinking, starting with top priority, remote access, file sharing, static webhosting, email and chat like XMPP. For fun at first, but perhaps later for work too (to replace paid hosting/email) if it goes well.
>>107006814Ubuntu LTS, because I don't care enough to use something else.It's stable, it has live patch, it's been running for years without bothering me.That said fuck snaps
