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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

When you say WiFi to you mean that you only have WiFi access or does the labtop not have a Ethernet port? If you have a wired connection I would get either a thunderbolt or usb3 adapter to hardwire it as a hardwired connection will be more stable even on USB speeds.

The OS will depend on what you want to host. If its a older system with less than 8 GB of ram I would just install Debian with docker. You can find premade docker compose files online which should make deploying software easy.

If you have plenty of hardware you could install Proxmox and then a few VMs.

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