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So I have a couple options at my disposal. I’m fairly beginner with self hosting, with linux, and command line.

So my options are

  1. Run server via ubuntu vm on windows 11 machine that I already run my plex server and some game servers through.

  2. Use random other computer, install ubuntu or ubuntu server on and host that way. Not sure if ubuntu or ubuntu server would be better for me. I’m not sure what the hardware is yet, but I know it’s pretty old and likely lower end. I have very little cli experience and I want to learn to be better command line so maybe ubuntu server would be a good learning experience.

  3. Host it via docker on linux machine.

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[–] fozid@feddit.uk 3 points 11 hours ago

It depends what your long term goals are. If it's just to run those services as simply as possible, then just run them in docker on windows. If you want to learn Linux, then setup you other hardware and install a server distro. Ubuntu is fine, but I use Debian.

Then once you get used to Linux, one day you could migrate your Plex server to Linux and remove windows from your main server.