What’s the most lightweight distro you guys don’t mind using? Going to OS swap a Chromebook

Arch Linux

yeah Desktop environments in Linux aren't great and take tweaking to get it looking and working well

yeah I use Linux server and SSH far more these days

MacOS

Slackware 15.0

get a used thinkpad or dell latitude and put xubuntu on it

xubuntu is good lightweight OS for newer users

if you already know your away around linux, i'd recommend arch or void

NVM i misread the question

there was crouton, but IIRC it got deprecated

there is some VM thing google offers to get a psuedo-linux environment, but i'd recommend getting rid of the chromebook if you can and get a used laptop tbh

google's chromebooks really suck, they don't even have a BIOS, you're just locked in

Slowly getting the pieces together for my mini-itx server build.
It's primary function will be to learn servers, and host jellyfin and maybe apache.

Was planning on running debian stable (using sid as everyday driver)

Unsure about sdoftware moving forward.
Do i need to install NAS software?
Is zfs that important for a small personal server?
What do other frens use?

I’ve got a headless pi on raspian running homebridge. Got it to also be a VSCode server. I do all sorts of dumb things on there just to mess around.

same i love my raspberry pi. got it running all my python scripts to automate things around my house

also have it set up as a web server so i can use it to edit the script settings from my phone so i don’t have to go into the pi to change certain things

i wanna either get another one or use the same one for a media server for plex

I might do something with a pre-built I got lying around

Might turn it into an emulation box hooked up to my TV

@hotpancakes @EugeneKrabs im setting up a little home server on my LAN

i want a domain so i don't have to memorize ports but im very paranoid about bussin it wide open to the public internet

im confused because i don't want to open it up outside the LAN but I need some type of way to get a local domain running

do you know anything about it? i don't need remote access from outside ATM

you just need a local domain? sounds like you want nothing on your WAN so you aren't using a real domain

you seem like you might be confusing a ddns and a local domain?

you can just setup a local domain name server and point it towards servers on your Lan so you can use netbios names instead of typing in IPs

Where all my DevOps engineers at

copped an intel nuc earlier this year, put proxmox on it and setup a small lan on it with pfsense as the router. was beneficial for tasks that i do at work cause i'm the unofficial ansible guru and the home lab has allowed me to draft and test playbooks before implementing them in production.

Been using fedora for the past 7 years

if it ends with buntu stay away from it

Tar -cf hello.zip

?

I don't use tar a lot

Valve pushing Linux

Gabe Newell the GOAT