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Longtime Debian user, looking to branch out. (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front.

However, I am starting to get into self-hosting and homelab projects. I'd like to start test driving some light-weight distros of a different flavor.

I'd prefer a GUI be available, but the environment and WM is pretty inconsequential-- except it shouldn't be bloated. I'll install any additional apps I want, I don't need a curated mid-to-heavy-weight distro.

The plan is to make heavy use of Docker images, to try to maintain a clean and modular setup of services. If that makes any difference.

Suggestions? Any slim distros you're just gaga for?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have a arch and debian server. I am afraid of the arch server. Debian I haven't touched since install other than updatingbit once in a while.

You have experience of Debian use it, or maybe go down fedora, rocky for homelab. You would want to experiment on the homelab not with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is as good as an Arch server... I love the adrenalin running in my veins every update!

I even set an autoupdate script to make things even more scarier!

Despite the adrenalin rush, my Arch never broke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have had two kernel regressions causing unbootable install. Though i still use Arch on my laptop. For the homelab I would go Debian.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

For my daily laptop I use Arch with LTS kernel. I've using it for years and had only 1 issue with normal kernel (that made me switch to LTS)

Also I used Arch as server for long time in my homelab, however now I changed to OrangePi and Raspberry Pi, so I use Ubuntu