I have been wanting to self-host recently I have an old laptop it’s a Toshiba satellite m100-221 sitting around it only has 4gb of ram, but I don’t know what is a good starting point for an OS for my home lab I discovered yunohost but heard mixed opinions about it when searching I would like lemmy’s opinion on a good OS for a beginner wanting to start a home lab I would prefer a simple solution like yunohost but would like it to be configurable it’s fine if it needs a bit of tinkering.

  • dizzy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I used yunohost for a bit and while it was easy setup, it wasn’t easy to troubleshoot weird errors because hardly anyone uses it.

    I’d recommend setting up:

    • debian with a desktop environment to start with
    • figure out how to ssh into it from your main machine and maybe how to use tmux
    • docker and how docker works
    • self-hosting services using docker