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Fedora, Debian or Alpine? (alien.top)
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I have a Pi, which I currently use to host some services (pihole, ghostofolio, bookstack, vaultwarden, homepage, portainer and CASAOS). Now I have a small GigaByte Brix with an Intel N processor (2 cores), 8 GB of ram and 1Tb SSD. Works great, passive heatsink, zero noise.

I'm going to use it for Immich, and transfer from the Raspi VaultWarden and Ghostfolio and something else (maybe nextcloud).

I've been testing with Fedora Server, Debian, and Alpine Linux. In all three cases, you should always tap here and there to get the system "ready." But for the "long term" it seems that Fedora is more solid, + it includes cockpit by default. I loved Alpine, it is simply fast, but it always requires more touch-ups. Debian seems, as we say in my country, "the known dog" but the apt system seems like a real mess to me.

Opinions? CasaOS will not be installed here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Personally a huge fan of Alpine. It's snappy as fuck. But you're right about the startup cost. If you can get over than energy hump, go for it, given the low resources of a Pi compared to a traditional desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aside from the image size, is there any real performance benefit from alpine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In my experience, definitely yes. Additionally, if you don't like using busybox, you can install GNU tools with the package manager. After doing so, I didn't really notice a speed change for the negative, so I just kept that as my defaults.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I finally chose Fedora, although my heart was with Alpine-linux 😝

The reason. I used Fedora desktop for a long time, and it was the best user experience with Linux I had. I am currently with MacOs but I miss Fedora and GNOME (a lot). It is a robust distribution, with large support and a large amount of information on the web. Furthermore, the cockpit is quite useful to perform some tasks without depending on a terminal in case I need to access it from outside my local network. I think there was no wrong option as some have commented. Just a matter of personal taste.

Thanks all