cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49871915
Hey everyone!
I’ve been rocking Proxmox for a little over a year on an old Mac Mini with a failing NIC (I probably damaged it when I installed the SSD). So I decided it was time to get some new used cheap hardware and I have just received a HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF, going to throw 32GB of RAM, a 1TB M2 NVMe boot drive and a 4TB SATA drive for media in it (this will replace my external 4TB drive).
Right now in Proxmox I’m running a Docker VM with Debian (Transmission-VPN container, ByteStash, FreshRSS, KaraKeep), another Debian VM for Visual Studio Code so I can remote into VS Code on my Mac and iPad and couple of LXC containers (Plex, Open WebUI and Pi Hole).
Honestly Proxmox feels like overkill for what I’m doing, half of what I’m doing is either individual LXC containers or I find myself SSH’ing into the Docker VM. The Proxmox helper scripts are great, but I feel like I’m not learning much and I don’t know how much I can trust random GitHub URLs.
I’d like to start learning and becoming more self-sufficient with Linux. I was pretty excited by the idea of learning NixOS, get comfortable learning the code and then creating distinct configurations for different systems, including my Mac devices with Darwin… then I was reminded of all the recent bullshit happening in the community… I don’t want to get deep into the discussion in this thread, but I don’t really want to use/support a distro that Palmer Luckey and Anduril are trying to influence and control.
So I’m trying to decide if I should stick with Proxmox, try something like Arch or keep an eye on what’s going down with Nix and have a good backup strategy if the situation worsens.
I’d probably switch from Docker to Podman, use Wayland with Niri and learn NeoVIM and use SSH instead of VS Code remote tunnels.
Based on my current setup and my goals, what would you suggest I do?
Cut out the middleman and go Debian on bare metal?
I'm running Debian 12 bare metal on my home server, for over a year.
it just runs, no hassle or craziness.
Debian gang! I almost exclusively use Debian distros on any of my PCs/VMs/LXCs.
I've been a proud Debian stan since my dad introduced it to me back in the early 2000s. He used to be a QA engineer at Novell, so we had various OSes on the home computer, including Windows and multiple Linux distros (not at the same time - old Compaq Deskpro 2000). He brought home a Dell Latitude once, loaded with a basic Debian install and no GUI. Since I had a little experience with Linux already (some command line from watching my dad install OSes), he just showed me certain important commands (including
rm -rf /- this was before--no-preserve-rootwas required; intentionally causing a computer to melt down the first time was pretty entertaining) and how to switch between virtual consoles. I just kinda figured it out on my own from there.Debian just appealed to me over all the other distros I had used up to that point. I'm guessing because it was easy to work with (still is), and so highly-documented (it was always one of the first results on Google).
Not sure what got me on that tangent... Thank you coming to my TED talk.