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Recommendations for OS on a rpi 4B (outside of RaspPiOS) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Quickly wondering what people recommend as OS for a rpi model 4b, outside of the RaspPiOS ofc. I want to use the RPI for all networking related stuff (dont worry its not using an sd-card). So PiHole, and I'll also want to use it as my exit-node out of my Tailnet. I will also run ProtonVPN on it so that all my devices indirectly use a vpn, as long as they're connected over Tailscale. That's at least what I had in mind so far, please do criticise the idea if there are better alternatives or solutions that you would recommend. I have been looking at running either Alpine or MicroOS. Or should I just go for a server based OS?

Appreciate any suggestions!

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[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NixOS runs on a pi quite well and it's pretty good for setting up self hosted services

Storage space might be an issue on smaller SDs but I haven't run into that yet on mine

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I really do want to get into NixOS, just not had the time to learn something so different quitr yet. Possibly after Christmas. Would really like to be running the same OS on all of my devices fro sure.