r1w1s1, 28 days ago

@geerlingguy for sure #Slackware

ednl, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy Aw, not a single mention of "how about Suse". It was my first distro way back when, I bought a cardboard box with a big book and a couple of CDs. But yeah, I haven't looked at it recently either. So I just did and this looks promising maybe for the overworked homelabber: https://get.opensuse.org/microos/

albonycal, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy I haven't used those RHEL based distros much, debian user from the start.
So I am interested in knowing:

What changed in Debian that made you change your mind?

geerlingguy, 1 month ago

@albonycal nothing, it's what changed in a CentOS, namely its cessation of existence.

crft, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy #NixOS has been simpler for me than #Debian lately. The packages and the options tabs in search.nixos.org have helped.

sandro, 1 month ago

@crft @geerlingguy The pain with Debian starts when using out of tree software. Every homelab project I want to use is not in Debian.

geerlingguy, 1 month ago

@sandro @crft I typically use Docker for that, easier to manage dependencies in containers.

mikhailbot, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy curious if you think the 3/5 years of support is an issue? It’s one the big pulls of Ubuntu LTS/Rocky with 10 years

geerlingguy, 1 month ago

@mikhailbot Ubuntu's still only 5 years unless you pay for Pro; it's a good cadence for me, every couple years I tweak my automation, test all my backups by migrating to new VMs

SmoothLiquidation, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy You were thinking of using Rocky Linux for the NAS you were building. Have you talked about why you switched that?

geerlingguy, 1 month ago

@SmoothLiquidation Debian was easier to get ZFS set up on Arm

whydoesnothingwork, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy NixOS a great choice, and for that use case specifically I have step by step tutorials its easier to manage and for a home lab the ability to roll back after messing around goes poorly is priceless

qlp, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy Having used Ubuntu for servers for a long time, I switched from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Debian 12.

The smaller RAM and storage footprint of Debian 12 has been really helpful when running VMs on my Pi 4 boards or older systems.

I did try out Rocky 9, but I feel like it takes more time to get things ready (especially when I don't have any runbooks or automated scripts already built out) compared to Debian. That said, I am using Rocky to run a MySQL dev instance on a VM on my M1 Max MBP since I didn't want to fight with compiling MySQL for Debian.

I have since migrated my Wait Wait Stats stuff (Python, Flask or FastAPI, NGINX and MySQL) from Ubuntu to Debian. 🙌🏼

garettmd, 1 month ago

@geerlingguy kind of a shame (and sort of problematic) that so much is leaning on a single distro

geerlingguy, 1 month ago

@garettmd there's always the fallback of BSD!