I have been wanting to self-host recently I have an old laptop it's a Toshiba satellite m100-221 sitting around it only has 4gb of ram, but I don't know what is a good starting point for an OS for my home lab I discovered yunohost but heard mixed opinions about it when searching I would like lemmy's opinion on a good OS for a beginner wanting to start a home lab.
XKCD 2501 applies in this thread.
OP, get CasaOS or Yunohost. Very very simple. Your laptop is fine (you’ll probably want to upgrade the ram soon).
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Without knowing what you actually want to do, I’d put Debian on it. Very good, very stable, very widespread OS with plenty of tutorials around for whatever you decide to do with it. Do a minimal installation and 4 GB RAM are plenty to play around with.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I use debian for my ancient media server. It’s great.
adarza@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Even better when you’re already familiar with it. And I’d consider a media server to already be “selfhosting”.
melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
Yup Debian would also be my way of getting started.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I second Debian because of the amount of information out there.