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I’m new to all this.

Synology: I was using Synology before and getting started with trying some Docker containers. The Synology was very underpowered and containers kept crashing or being shut down (from resources running out I guess) so I wanted to upgrade.

Comments seemed to suggest it is best to keep the Synology as purely a NAS and use a mini PC for compute, so that’s what I went for. Got a 12th Gen Intel mini PC pretty cheap on eBay to play around with.

Debian - I’ve put Debian with KDE on the mini PC server. I was looking I to TrueNAS or Unraid to decide what I should try learning. My brother rightly said there’s no reason to over complicate things when I don’t need functions of those OS and don’t understand them. The one place the Linux community seems to be united is in recommending Debian for a server for being rock solid and stable. I’ve been very happy with it.

Spent my week off figuring out Docker, mounting NAS drives on the server PC, troubleshooting the problems. Got a setup I’m really happy with and I’m really happy I went with Debian.

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credics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I have pretty much the same setup. Works like a charm.

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- cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What are you running on your server? I’m looking for more ideas.
  
  I’ve got loads of stuff up and running, but now it is all quietly functional and I’m withdrawing from the enjoyment if setting up something new. I’ve recently had to delete a couple of Docker apps which weren’t really very useful for me, but I enjoyed setting them up and liked seeing a long list of healthy containers in Dockge.
  
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  - credics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Immich, paperless, Bitwarden, and a static website with recipes. I am very happy with all of them. Next projects are Forgejo, obsidian live sync (via CouchDB) and a budgeting software (not decided yet)
    
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    cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Notes app is a good idea. I might have a look at options.
    
    Actual is working really well for me for budgeting.
    
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