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.
That’s exactly what the XKCD is about, what you wrote is just like the chemical formulas they are talking about in the comic for your average person
Agreed.
I’ve been using Linux for years.
I’ve done minor coding.
I’ve even installed Adguard and a VPN on a router.
Built my own water cooled PC.
I still don’t quite understand what Docker is or does, or containerized stuff. I’ve avoided most networking stuff since XP, and it’s basically a completely other field of tech as far as I’m concerned, like Math is to Physics.
I use VMs instead. I understand those and can pretend the benefits matter.