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Which OS do you use for your homeserver? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by melandroph@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] themachine@lemmy.world 104 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Debian for all things.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Debian all the way

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[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Debian

[–] tko@tkohhh.social 47 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unraid

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[–] chris@lem.cochrun.xyz 34 points 9 months ago (6 children)

NixOS

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just heard of NixOS for the first time because of this thread. Looked up some videos on it, and my jaw hit the fucking floor.

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[–] bzLem0n@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago

Same here. I came for the integrated ZFS support and stayed for the declarative config.

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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Proxmox (debian) on the hosts, and Debian for all the VMs and Containers.

Just nice and easy to use, supported by basically everything, and a minimal install uses like 30MB of RAM.

I also have an OSX VM because that's literally the only way you can test a website in Safari (fu Apple).

[–] billygoat@catata.fish 7 points 9 months ago

Love proxmox. Been using it for nearly a decade and while it has its pain points it has been rock solid for me for the past 4 years.

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Debian.

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[–] KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Debian

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Three HP ProLiant servers running ProxMox cluster. Each box has a VM for Portaiber, as well as mismatch of VMs running Home Assistant OS, OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Windows and Debian, along with a Windows file server that connectes to four cheap NAS running Ubuntu LTS with a combined 20 mismatched hard drives by iSCSI and borgs them together with Storage Spaces.

It's a fucking mess, if I'm honest.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 months ago

I love this so much

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TempleOS

[–] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The way God intended.

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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

Debian. It is rock solid. If software doesn't support Debian, chances are it supports something Debian based. You never have to worry about an update breaking your computer. It is the perfect "it just works" distro for a server.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Debian.

Stable, well documented, easy to install. I do not need anything else right now.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 18 points 9 months ago

Debian

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago

Synology DiskStation Manager.

[–] shalva97@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Arch Linux. I am so used to it I just can't live with any other OS

[–] PHLAK@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am super impressed with Arch on my home servers. People seem to think "rolling" means "unstable" but the only issues I've had were due to some weird hardware incompatibility with my motherboard. Once I replaced the mobo my system has been rock solid AND reasonably up-to-date (I do use LTS kernel).

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I felt the exact same way. So many comments online told me that running Arch as a home NAS was insane, but after the Jupiter Broadcasting guys did it without much issue, I decided to give it a go and was pleasantly surprised. I think if most of your stuff is running in Docker and you have BTRFS snapshots for your root filesystem, the system's pretty much bullet proof. The rolling updates also mean you'll never have huge upgrade cycles that are a pain in the ass to migrate to. You're always just dealing with small manageable fires instead of large complicated ones and that's a plus.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Ubuntu LTS, with all my services in Docker containers.

I know Ubuntu gets a lot of (deserved) hate for some of the shit Canonical pulls, but for now, I like Ubuntu and it works for me.

When I rebuilt my server at the beginning of the month, I was gonna jump to Debian, but my god the Debian website is obtuse. After looking at the site and trying to determine what to download to get Debian with non-free (I’m unfortunately working with an NVIDIA card), I decided to go with Ubuntu. I needed a smooth rebuild process and with Ubuntu I know exactly what I’ll get when I download the LTS server.

Edit: grammar

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[–] HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

Proxmox for the the hosts, Debian cloud imagen for the VMs and docker inside

[–] capital@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ubuntu Server with docker/docker-compose on top.

So many guides for Ubuntu specifically makes reading up on something a lot easier and it works just fine.

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Arch because why not.

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OpenMediaVault

Good OOTB customizations, works on Pi, and easy to extend with plugins (Docker/Portainer is pretty much all I needed).

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[–] enshu@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

NixOS

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

NixOS, I find the config very easy and quick

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Truenas

Thought it would be more popular. I'm outnumbered hard

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[–] kinther@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Ubuntu 22.04 server. It works well enough for my purposes and until it doesn't I don't see a reason to switch distros.

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[–] shadowbert@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Unraid, mostly due to the flexible arrays.

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[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My DIY NAS runs Arch

LTS kernel
BTRFS snapshots on root fs
4 drive NVMe array using ZFS raidz1
podman for my docker containers

It's been working fantastically so far.

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[–] april@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm running FreeBSD I actually like it a lot.

I picked it for zfs. A lot of the ways things work seem cleaner and simpler than on Linux and zfs is awesome with the copy on write snapshots and filesystem compression and all that. I like rc.conf and pf is way nicer than iptables and even when you upgrade it automatically makes a snapshot so you can rollback.

Sometimes I do need to patch and compile things because people seem to not know freebsd exists but that's really the only downside.

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[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Pi OS. It's a Pi4 after all.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Windows 7

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[–] ndupont@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Proxmox with Debian LXC containers. The most natural transition from Raspberry Pi OS which is a Debian flavor

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[–] wgs@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

OpenBSD for all of them.

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[–] lgo@feddit.nl 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Currently I am using Arch Linux. I am in the process of switching to NixOS.

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[–] kindenough@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

TrueNAS formerly known as FreeNAS

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Just to be controversial, macos. It's nothing fancy, just the arrs and Jellyfin running on an old MacBook air.

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ubuntu LTS, but in the process of replacing it with Debian

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Depends on what you want to do with it. But for most things Debian or Fedora (Server edition) work fine.

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[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Hyper-V / ESXi for host. Mostly windows with some Ubuntu server.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I too proxy my moxies, but run various OSes within them (via VMs or containers).

[–] Elkenders@feddit.uk 7 points 9 months ago

Debian Bookworm

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.

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