Pretty much the title. I’ve seen plenty of people using proxmox and truenas but I don’t really see many homelab users running Ubuntu server or something similar? Do many people actually use it to run docker or any containers on their machines? Just curious.

  • flobernd@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Debian for me on all VMs and all servers that do not run a hypervisor. Can’t stand the snaps that Ubuntu introduced in a very aggressive and intrusive way. Don’t need a GUI either so Debian is a natural choice for me. Pro tip for non critical services: Enable the backports repository to get modern packages with recent versions. I’ve never encountered a problem, but still would not recommend it for a mission critical service.

  • fmtheilig@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Of my 13 running VMs, nine are Ubuntu server (mostly 20.04). Three are Oracle Linux and one Rocky Linux.

  • unixuser011@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m going to catch some heat for this, but I personally can’t stand Ubuntu. I don’t know what is it about the system or envrionment but it just rubs me the wrong way. Fine with Debian but Ubuntu just sits wrong with me

  • Donkey545@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use Proxmox with both Debian and Ubuntu servers hosted on it. My fundamental choice for the distro in this situation is whether I can find more community use of one distro over another for the service I am hosting. At this point, I am more familiar with Debian, but I use ubuntu server for some things at work, so it is valuable for me to use it at home to build skills.

  • boogiahsss@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Ubuntu is my go-to linux OS that I have running as vm’s on hyperV
    Some uses are: uisp, haproxy, my webhosting machine, zabbix etc.

  • well-litdoorstep112@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not in my homelab but in prod, yes. I had a free 15yo box and two days to deploy my app there. Ubuntu Server was the first distro that came to my mind.

    It was running for like two years without a problem until the company hired an infra guy who moved all the standalone servers(mine included) to VMs running on a proper rack mounted hypervisor server(or maybe a cluster of servers? IDK) with some backup strategy.

    But the guy just took an image of the drive and put it in the VM so it’s still running Ubuntu Server. And to this day there hasn’t been any problems with it.

    Once they had a power outage but fortunately for me the docker containers had autostart enabled so it all came back up. That’s about it.

  • kgodric@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m running ~2400 Ubuntu server vms on vmware. They are running various workload environments that I use for testing and learning.

  • camxct@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Ubuntu is fine, but I use Debian for everything because it is rock fucking solid.

  • RiffyDivine2@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use proxmox and have ubuntu server doing both my portainer load out and anything else I need. So yeah people use it.

  • Nebakanezzer@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I have 3 or so servers using ubuntu server. 2x nas and a VM with a bunch of the ‘arrs’. All the rest are debian. when I first started out years ago, I didn’t really know the difference, but I prefer the smaller install size and stability of debian now.

  • Congenital_Optimizer@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used to use it until this year. I’ve switched over to vanilla Debian.

    Ubuntu LTS was what I used. I had more ansible playbooks to de-ubuntu them than I had to configure stuff. Ubuntu likes to invent stuff for no reason, make you use it, then abandon it years later.

  • hesselim@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use Ubuntu server exclusively. I invested in knowlegde for Ubuntu server os. It just works