this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
76 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

63163 readers
389 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Detailed Rules Post

  1. Be civil.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts are to be related to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.

  8. AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I discovered Incus and IncusOS recently, and they seem like a very cool foundation for a self-hosted setup.

I'm thinking of using them with incus-compose to declare my setup.

Does anybody use them? I'd love to get some feedback. Are they stable and polished yet, or are there still a lot of sharp edges?

They mention "designed for modern systems" on their website. Are there any issues running it on a roughly 10-year-old laptop?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, you can install Incus on any linux distro. I use it on a Debian server.

It's IncusOS that is immutable.

But proxmox is actually just a set of packages on top of debian, and proxmox is not immutable either. You aren's supposed to tinker with the host, but if you are doing things like jailbreaking consuner gpu's to unlock the server gpu only features, then it becomes nice to have that option.