I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front.

However, I am starting to get into self-hosting and homelab projects. I’d like to start test driving some light-weight distros of a different flavor.

I’d prefer a GUI be available, but the environment and WM is pretty inconsequential-- except it shouldn’t be bloated. I’ll install any additional apps I want, I don’t need a curated mid-to-heavy-weight distro.

The plan is to make heavy use of Docker images, to try to maintain a clean and modular setup of services. If that makes any difference.

Suggestions? Any slim distros you’re just gaga for?

  • reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyi
    9·
    8 months ago

    I have a arch and debian server. I am afraid of the arch server. Debian I haven’t touched since install other than updatingbit once in a while.

    You have experience of Debian use it, or maybe go down fedora, rocky for homelab. You would want to experiment on the homelab not with it.

    • BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br
      5·
      8 months ago

      Nothing is as good as an Arch server… I love the adrenalin running in my veins every update!

      I even set an autoupdate script to make things even more scarier!

      Despite the adrenalin rush, my Arch never broke

      • reddit_sux@iusearchlinux.fyi
        5·
        8 months ago

        I have had two kernel regressions causing unbootable install. Though i still use Arch on my laptop. For the homelab I would go Debian.

        • BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br
          2·
          8 months ago

          For my daily laptop I use Arch with LTS kernel. I’ve using it for years and had only 1 issue with normal kernel (that made me switch to LTS)

          Also I used Arch as server for long time in my homelab, however now I changed to OrangePi and Raspberry Pi, so I use Ubuntu