Hey, folks I’m moving my main PC to linux soon, and for that I have settled on Mint. However, I also plan to build a homelab pc for the first time to selfhost some services, mainly Jellyfinn, some game servers, and possibly next cloud, but I’m unsure which distro to go with for that.
I have some experience running debian headless (on an orange pi) and I can use ssh and the cli just fine, however, I also want the server pc to (maybe) serve as a moonlight client in my living room, so I was leaning towards something that is not headless, and I am unsure if I should also go with Mint for that or if something else might be more suitable.
But what would Proxmox do?
It’s the virtualisation, right? Won’t it consume extra resources? Or won’t it be unimportant, since it’s very little? (Never worked with VMs seriously, only casually ran some things here and there.)
I’m not the original poster, but I’m curious too. I think I’d pick some Fedora / Arch for the task, depending whether someone else would use it too.
Proxmox gives you a nice (and limited!) front end to manage containers and virtualization, but it also lets you do other cool stuff like resource pooling, credential management and too much to really get into.
Really powerful enterprise and whole organization level management in that package.
It’s not the only game in town, but it’s free and well documented and I recommended bare metal Debian as a stepping stone as opposed to alternative because proxmox runs on top of Debian so knowing that system is very nice.
The overhead is real. On the other hand, all your little vms and containers are rarely doing something all at the same time so it doesn’t matter.
there is some overhead but it’s not like running a full VM when you are talking about containers and it is way safer if you want to expose anything to the internet due to isolation
edit: i’m talking about containers in general, not proxmox exclusively. depending on your case proxmox will let you spin a whole VM if needed