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Best distro to turn my old laptop into a server?
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I’d throw an option out for Suse but if you really want as little OS as possible Arch Linux.
I actually started of with arch on my server, and recently moved to Debian. In my opinion, Debian is way more suitable for a server, especially if you want things to “just work”. Especially when installing Nextcloud, I noticed how much more Debian does for you compared to arch, which makes the entire process way easier.
Same reason I’m on Suse now as well. I got tired of tinkering all the time.