Thread 107006814

What distro/OS do you run on your server and why?

raspbian

>>107006814 (OP)
> debian
It's small, it has a large package base, so I don't need flatpak on my server, it has systemd, which makes cron and services trivial, and it can run k8s and docker.

>>107006814 (OP)
debian
just werks

>>107006814 (OP)
pufferfish wit da big ass lip

>>107006814 (OP)
only cachyos of course!

alpine

>>107006814 (OP)
headless nixos
it just werks.

>>107006814 (OP)
Debian
It just works

>>107006814 (OP)
Ubuntu Server LTS. I don't need more.

>>107006814 (OP)
fedora computer good

>>107007665
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I DIDN'T GOT TRIPS
WHO STOLE MY TRIPS
>>107007666

>>107007665
>>107007675
figures your vibe coded OS had trips stolen by an AIJeeter. #rekt.

>>107006814 (OP)
Used to use Ubuntu Server, now Proxmox

>>107006814 (OP)
debian. because it is good enough

>>107006814 (OP)
Windows Server, anyone?

>>107007781
The Chad choice. Linjeets could never.

When I first had one I used Debian. If I were to need one again, I'd use OpenBSD.

>>107007559
>>107008077
cuck license

>>107008112
I'm not an os dev why the fuck should I care about muh loicense. Nor do I used the propietary offshoots. You schizos need to stop it with the tribal mentality.

>>107006814 (OP)
Debian. I've been running it an upgrading it for a long time. I initially picked it because it was supposed to be stable. It's not really as stable as I would have hoped, updates have broken important things more than once (like virtualization, not some random package everyone forgot exists) and right now I'm still using Debian 12 because after an attempted upgrade to 13 one of my VMs was no longer working and rtorrent would segfault when receiving XMLRPC requests. Kinda disappointing for a distro supposedly famed for its "stability."

I haven't debugged either issue and just went back to a backup I took before the upgrade.

>>107006814 (OP)
proxmox on the metal and debian stable in vms

>>107007781
somehow even more cucked than OS that ships a literal "cuck" license

nixos

>>107006814 (OP)
Proxmox

5$ vps
Use arch because it just werks and has no bloat hogging ram by default. At the same time has systemd so I can use service files from the internet. Just needed to configure it to delete package cache after each update because otherwise I ran out of space very fast.

>>107006814 (OP)
why would I need to own a server?

whatever my DS220 uses (yes, I'm calling that a server, cope). It's probably Debian based but I'm too lazy to look it up.

>>107006814 (OP)
Ubuntu Server. It was my first time using Linux in over 10 years and I used & enjoyed Ubuntu back then, it was also the only distro I was really aware of at the time. It hasn't died so I haven't switched.

>>107006814 (OP)
proxmox for LXCs

>>107006814 (OP)
Gentoo, since that's what I run on my desktop and gaming machine

debian ofc. I'm still on bookworm btw probably should upgrade soon..

Debian but I've considered an arch based home server on the lts kernel that just doesn't get updated often.

>>107006814 (OP)
arch with pacman in the crontab

>>107006814 (OP)
Debian because of the rutorrent script.

>>107006814 (OP)
Dont remember, but OMV7 for sure.

7.7.18-1 (Sandworm) Intel(R) Celeron(R) N5095 @ 2.00GHz Linux 6.12.43+deb12-amd64

>>107010040
>deb12
Ok, I'm stupid...

freebsd and it's mostly because the hardware is so old that newer linux kernels don't even boot on it.

>>107010050
>newer linux kernels don't even boot on it.
Tiny linux would boot on it, it even can boot on 486 without a math-coprocessor.

Also, what would you run on this toaster ?

>>107010086
it's just some bullshit NAS i threw together with early 2000s parts. i run navidrome too.

Used to run Ubuntu server lts by default but Im building out a cluster running talos Linux + kubernetes

>>107010090
*early 2010s

>>107006814 (OP)
Proxmox, and inside that is OpnSense, since I use my ThinkCenter as my router.

>>107010090
>>107010097
now that i think about it i just wanted a printing and local dns server first lmao

Gentoo or proxmox. Gentoo cloud images on proxmox. Using gentoo as my router too.

Why? Reduced attack vector, familiarity, customization, sane file structure, lack of trannies, lack of normies.
Life is good.

>>107006814 (OP)
>ThinkCentre M910
AlmaLinux
>ThinkCentre M625
AlmaLinux
>ProLiant DL580 Gen9
Xubuntu Minimal (w/Pro features for live kernel patching)

The ThinkCentres are mainly for split horizon DNS servers that I manage for a client with weird needs, but I actually own them, so use them to host some of my own services too. Alma is just great. Can't recommend it enough. The Proliant isn't technically mine, and lives a few miles down the road, but I'm the only one who has access to it, and treat it like my own flesh and blood. Xfce comes in handy because I manage some internal services for them on there, and a lot have web interfaces. It also allows me to show the client info about the network and status of running services from a comfy GUI.

>>107006814 (OP)
windows 10

Considering using oracle linux since it's basically just rhel but less of a hassle to obtain since you don't need to mess with dev licenses

>>107010755
All the RHEL-compatibles are great. Alma, Oracle, and even Rocky.

>>107008917
This.
And sometimes I go for Alpine as a guest OS if it's a really simple use case, such as a dedicated Tailscale container.

>>107006814 (OP)
>Debian
Been thinking about moving but I need normies to still be able to reboot the server so it is what it is

SmartOS. It's rock solid, has piss easy updates, inherits a great base system from Solaris, is immutable and runs entirely in RAM, great package selection and an easy build sysyem in native zones due to using NetBSD pkgsrc, easy to reallocate resources on the fly, bhyve HVMs actually run better than on FreeBSD. Runs circles around Proxmox.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/09/19/freebsd-vs-smartos-whos-faster-for-jails-zones-bhyve/

>>107006814 (OP)
Manjaro ARM

>>107006814 (OP)
literally set it up 1h ago, picked ubuntu just because it's the most popular one

>>107006814 (OP)
rocky linux
rock solid like its name

>>107006814 (OP)
FreeBSD because I like ZFS without license drama
I also like FreeBSD if I don’t have to bother with X

I have a freeBSD install on a machine like this but I was so overwhelmed by learning ZFS and the networking parts when setting up jails, pf.conf and wireguard that it is currently gathering dust. It's a very good system but when you spent years using Docker where you mostly don't have to bother manually setting up firewall rules and bridges and nat or whatever, it's pretty rough. I should probably set up a Debian and get on with my life but I wanted something actually robust with a well-integrated core system.