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

    • testaccount372920@piefed.zipOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      The kind that is beginner friendly, where I can host some stuff like Jellyfin, some storage, git or similar, etc. Just for me and friends/family to access.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        So, a file server, mostly. A laptop is fairly inadequate for that, but will work for small loads.

        There are specialist distributions for that purpose, but you seem to want something more “generic”.

        You have a choice of trendy (what the forums like), or industry standard what’susedon real life servers) basically.