Good server OS for Jellyfin

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tester1121@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I want to make a server for hosting media through Jellyfin, and maybe some Nextcloud functionality. I prefer to use containers, but something like TrueNAS’ extensions/plugins sound good as well. This is my first server, so I don’t know what to choose. My possible options are:

Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora
TrueNAS Scale Which one should I choose? I am fine with using either Docker or Podman.

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p5f20w18k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not seeing anyone suggesting unRAID… it’s perfect for this kind of thing (from experience). VMs, LXC, Docker & flexible storage options.

Has its own App Store built in as well🤷‍♀️

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- tester1121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t really want to pay for software right now, as this is just my first server.
  
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- retrieval4558@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  If one wants the NAS functionality then yeah unRAID is great. If not I think they’d be served as well or better with Ubuntu and docker (ideally with portainer UI)
  
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hansl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
TrueNAS did make it easy for me to manage my home lab, but I’m more of a software engineer than a devops. Debian if you’re comfortable with managing that.

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- funkajunk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  TrueNAS Scale is based on Debian 😁
  
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