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What's your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS? (external-content.duckduckgo.com)

Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I’m planning to switch...

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Having used both:

Debian is very easy to manage, it has the one of packages and mostly sane defaults. Ubuntu’s user friendliness owes a lot to Debian. I do not like the state of package management however. Dpkg is in need of some upgrades, and the deb package format has some security concerns.

Rocky, being RHEL-derived is, as expected, exceptionally stable. I personally find DNF to be the superior package manager and I have historically run into fewer issues with it. Repos are extensive, especially with copr and fusion, but not as good as Debian.

For a simple home server use Debian. If you want experience with enterprise Linux use Rocky.

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Yes, in my opinion. The configuration of grub (boot loader) is just another step to go wrong, and this will eliminate that possibility. Additionally, it will prevent stupider operating systems (cough Windows) from accidentally overwriting the boot loader during an update.

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My understanding is that’s a yes.

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Same, I’m not a big multiplayer person so most of the time it works out. My latest has been Lethal Company, my first new multiplayer game this year 😂. Been a blast.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

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For what it’s worth I didn’t even notice they changed it. Can’t be the end of the world but I’d like to hear what network admins opinion’s are.

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I used to own an 9th Gen X1 Carbon but the speakers were god-awful given the lack of a DSP. Otherwise a very nice laptop though, amazing keyboard. This is going to sound crazy, but I picked up a Lenovo ChromeBook since my last post and just installed the Linux environment on it. For my needs (I SSH/Parsec into my Mac for most off-cloud workloads) it’s a combo of “just works” and *NIX where I need it. Since it’s cheap too I don’t care if it breaks which is a plus.

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