I tend to keep my laptops on mint or ubuntu. PC’s you use as a daily driver, should be easy to manage. When you boot, they just work.

Build a homelab, if you want to break stuff.

A homelab can be as small, as a vm in virtualbox. No need for extra hardware when starting off…

Laptop is Linux Mint, because my wife also use it and i want my laptop to be as easy to handle as possible.

Servers are Debian, because it’s very light on my hardware. Mostly used for containers.

Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm’s, mostly for hosting docker.

I’m considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I’d have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker…

Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it’s just an idea

I’m in either terminal or browser most of the time, DE is not an issue for me… KDE has an easy battery life optimization feature for laptops, so I guess I’ll go KDE

I’m running my Proxmox VE on a small asus mini pc with embedded cpu. It can’t even match a 5 year old i3 and I’m having no issues.

Running mainly containers and small projects