I’m looking to turn an old laptop into a home server. What distros make sense to use for that? Use a server dedicated distro like Ubuntu Server or is a regular desktop environment like Mint fine too?

Edit: TL;DR use Debian

  • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Opinions by their very nature are subjective.

    As someone who’s used Debian for 30 years though. Waiting years to use a new feature of an app was a common and painful experience in many cases. Nothing to do with stability. Though absolutely this is thankfully getting to be a bit outdated with the proliferation of flatpak etc.