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Hey everyone, I'm planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD's.

I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I've tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.

Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I'm a long time Linux and BSD user and I'm tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I'd be sensible and go with Debian for.... Stability?

Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?

Thank you for any hints or advice.

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

You run a server for yourself. It can boot every day without issues. It can even hibernate while you sleep at 4am.

You can perform updates every day without issues.

You want to run everything in a container, docker, podman, or friends.

The host does not really matter, it's all linux. Use the one that you are comfortable with. I chose fedora because I use the workstation. My second server is still on ubuntu. I won't change it until I change the machine because it doesn't matter that much. They are all stable.