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?

  • Responsabilidade@lemmy.eco.br
    5·
    7 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·
      7 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.

      • Responsabilidade@lemmy.eco.br
        2·
        7 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