Out of curiousity, if you run your own servers, what Linux distro do you use?

@axionyx Debian is my go-to for servers or basically any machine where stability is critical

@axionyx arch on my main server. some have called me insane for it, but it’s worked out alright (so far)

@axionyx started out running debian on my raspberry pi, installing yt-dlp was a pain and upgrading between major releases was confusing (im not even sure if i did it right). then i tried out nixos, the documentation is kinda lacking, and changing the configuration took multiple minutes and sometimes even hours since nixos-rebuild switch took more than 1GB of ram and so it had to swap out to my sd card which apparently really doesnt like being used as swap. now i use alpine, which is alright but i miss systemd and how well-documented it is

@axionyx Debian mostly, except one on Alpine (not running anything yet, but it will be a recursive DNS and wireguard server) and another on Guix (which will soon™ be replaced with different hardware running Gentoo, mostly because I can't be bothered to actually package services properly for Guix and I want systemd)

@unnick @axionyx What’s so confusing about Debian upgrades? Isn’t it just replacing the repos in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt update, then apt full-upgrade? There might be also be config changes in packages (like dovecot in bookworm→trixie, which is why I’m still on oldstable), but that’s no different to any other distro except they happen all at once every few years instead of spread out like on rolling release distros. Alpine has basically the same process, just with more frequent releases and different filenames and commands.

Alpine will have systemd packaged soon, or if you want it now you could switch to postmarketOS.

@axionyx almalinux is my current go-to now. It used to be Ubuntu server.