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All the home-server setups of my colleagues are tiny Kubernetes setups in various ways. Breaking down in various ways.

Mine is a Debian box. Upgraded from Debian 10 to 11 to 12. Running all kinds of things. I only use Debian packages alongside one or two Docker containers.

Linux can do boring just fine.

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Debian is incredible and I think there is a lot of mutual respect between both communities (debian and freebsd ; debian is even the default choice for the linux compatibility layer). I wish Debian GNU/kFreeBSD would be a thing...

Debian is the FreeBSD of the Linuxes, and FreeBSD is the Debian of the BSDs.

Proxmox runs on top of Debian by default, which is a fun and easy way to increase the layers of abstraction. All of my homelab stuff, my DNS server, and different things run on Proxmox, running on an old T430 on my bookshelf.

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