So this is my first attempt at a home server and it’s basically an SSD boot drive and a 1 TB (I know it’s small) HDD crammed into a gaming pc case and powered by a Ryzen 3 2200g… Hardly high tech, however… I’ve been told Linux is best so I foolishly tried installing Linux on a different SSD earlier… It didn’t go well as I accidentally installed it to the 1TB HDD and wiped out 700GB of data 🤦♂️.
I persevered and tried getting homarr installed which wasbas successful as Jimmy Savilles child minding service so I gave up and stuck my windows SSD back in…
So wonderful people of Reddit, should I just stick with windows, is it worth another shot at Linux? Should I use Ubuntu server, or standard Ubuntu? I’d love to get your input to the pros and cons, although right now I’m seeing nothing but cons for Linux 😅
“Linux is best” is uttered by those living in their mother’s basement having arm chair arguments online, while fapping to pictures of the girl they had a crush on in 9th grade.
Linux (especially vanilla distros like Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, etc) in the home lab is for those that hate themselves and like making everything as difficult as possible.
Now that said, while Windows has gotten absurdly better over the years as far as stability goes, it’s still not my personal cup of tea for a home server.
For me, Unraid, hands down and not a second guess. While it is Linux based, you need to know exactly nothing about Linux to run it. Which is the best part, never needing to never learn anything about archaic commands of things that you will never need to know in your day to day life.
TrueNAS deserves an honorable mention, but it’s best left out of the home server space for a large variety of reasons. Excellent for business where you have business budgets.