@geerlingguy Aw, not a single mention of "how about Suse". It was my first distro way back when, I bought a cardboard box with a big book and a couple of CDs. But yeah, I haven't looked at it recently either. So I just did and this looks promising maybe for the overworked homelabber: https://get.opensuse.org/microos/
@mikhailbot Ubuntu's still only 5 years unless you pay for Pro; it's a good cadence for me, every couple years I tweak my automation, test all my backups by migrating to new VMs
@geerlingguy NixOS a great choice, and for that use case specifically I have step by step tutorials its easier to manage and for a home lab the ability to roll back after messing around goes poorly is priceless
@geerlingguy Having used Ubuntu for servers for a long time, I switched from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Debian 12.
The smaller RAM and storage footprint of Debian 12 has been really helpful when running VMs on my Pi 4 boards or older systems.
I did try out Rocky 9, but I feel like it takes more time to get things ready (especially when I don't have any runbooks or automated scripts already built out) compared to Debian. That said, I am using Rocky to run a MySQL dev instance on a VM on my M1 Max MBP since I didn't want to fight with compiling MySQL for Debian.
I have since migrated my Wait Wait Stats stuff (Python, Flask or FastAPI, NGINX and MySQL) from Ubuntu to Debian. 🙌🏼
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