Comment on Basic Homeserver with old Mac Mini
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I did similar task recently, but used my old MacBook Pro 2011 (15 inch, with a faulty GPU). I chose DietPi, which I can recommend as a start distro for a newcomer. I chose it since I have some experience with it from my Raspberry Pi and I plan to give the laptop to a friend, who isn’t familiar with Linux. (For him to run Immich.)
I have a similar MacBook Pro for myself, with Arch Linux installed (my old laptop with a few keys now broken). It’s on WiFi, not Ethernet, and where the signal isn’t very good. Yet, I’m mostly happy with the result.
So far, being somewhat experienced with Linux, I think I’d choose DietPi for most server setups. I really love it, a good work done by maintainers. I can recommend going with it for your first self-hosted adventures.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’ll check that out, thanks
nosuchanon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I like dietpi. It makes a bunch of stuff way easier to manage and deal with.
Even once you know cli commands, it’s faster and easier to manage some things like services from their cli-gui.
PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s Debian underneath isn’t it, so I’d hope that that makes it stable and well supported. Easier is definitely better - I know that this whole self hosting game comes with admin, but anything I can do to make things easier and less time consuming in the regular is a good move