I’m a complete noob with: A computer with 4GB of RAM 1 tera of storage A computer from 2014 Free time Computer with a dead battery

I’m trying to selfhost files with nextcloud and imich (idk if I have writen it correctly)

English isn’t my first language btw

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Debian is fine and you can follow many tutorials (Ubuntu tutorials also usually work as the difference isn’t big).

  • wersooth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    if you want to self host and not open to the internet, alpinelinux is small, install docker and run your containert there, low footprint.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Proxmox is my number one choice. It’s based on Debian, and has an excellent, extremely straightforward web UI for managing virtual machines and LXC containers.

  • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Your computer very likely doesn’t need a special distro for low end devices yet. A common distro like linux mint will do fine, and that’s probably the best choice if you’re new to linux.

    Edit: if you only want to host stuff on it, and nothing else, maybe that yunohost people recommended can be a better choice

  • bluGill@fedia.io
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    12 days ago

    FreeBSD - it won’t be easy, but I’ve been a BSD guy at heart for decades… You will learn a lot and eventually be able to create better systems, but it will be years before you should risk putting anything important on a system - as a noob you have a lot to learn the hard way. Once you think you know FreeBSD you should try the other BSDs, and things like gentoo linux: you will really learn how this works.

    You can follow the advice of the others and get a system going sooner. It isn’t a wrong choice, but you won’t learn as much and if something doesn’t work the way you want you are stuck since you can’t dare change anything. As such I have to advice against it despite all the time/effort my advice will cost you.