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I use Alma because RHEL is designed for enterprise stability. Debian is also a good option.
Just don't use Ubuntu. They do too much invisible fuckery with the system that hinders use on a server. For basic desktop use it's fine, but never for a server.
Edit: but you should be doing most stuff in Docker anyway, so the actual OS isn't going to matter too much. If you're already comfortable with one base (Debian, RHEL) just use that one or a derivative.
Just don't use Ubuntu. They do too much invisible fuckery with the system that hinders use on a server.
Would that warning also apply to Mint, since it’s based on Ubuntu, as well as other Ubuntu-based distros?
Probably. I don't know what Mint or others do under the hood, but I do know they're definitely targeted at desktop use.
I assume any Linux or *BSD distro will work, especially one with Docker (which is most/all of them?) so you don't have to worry about things being packaged for your distro so long as there's a docker image. My server is Alpine Linux.
I use Alpine Linux for server-based stuff because it’s so light and the packages are kept up-to-date.
Like others in here, I also set mine up with Debian and docker compose. Since it's an always on server I wanted maximum stability. I don't use unRAID, so not sure about compatibility for that.
Data protection is a big concern. Is that something you have in your setup?
I run nightly archiving backups using Borg Backup.
It's compression + de-duplication algorithms have me able to store 18 historical backups of about 422gb ea, in only 367gb of disk space.
That then gets mirrored to a cold storage drive manually every few months.
I'm sure any server oriented Linux distro will do fine. I use Debian.
I will note, I don't know if you're planning on having remote access (e.g. through tailscale or reverse proxy), but if you are, I found it quite a challenge to get proton to play nice with them
For newcomers I'd recommend docker and images like gluetun for setting up the VPN. It makes it easy to forward ports (for remote access) while keeping the torrent client behind the VPN.
I would also recommend it, and I even tried it when i started, but i just couldn't get it to work. Probably permission issues
What did you end up using instead? It’s not a necessity, but remote monitoring and access has come in very handy in the past
For a while I split tunneled tailscale through an openvpn .conf file, but recently switched to using qbittorrent in docker with gluetun. Qbittorrent is realistically the only service that needs to be behind a vpn so it works out well
I dunno what the best is, but if you choose nixos configure openvpn instead of trying to use the protonvpn package.
Just wanted to add that Wireguard is better than OpenVPN in every way and you should use that except when you want to use it for torrenting. I don't know remember the reason but that's the one time when you should be using OpenVPN. I think it had something to do with OpenVPN supporting TCP and Wireguard being UDP only or something like that.
Wireguard uses UDP which results in better latency and power usage (e.g. mobile). This does not mean Wireguard can't tunnel TCP packets, just like OpenVPN also supports tunneling UDP.
I'm using Wireguard succesfully for torrenting.
interesting. proton has example openvpn configs on their site which was hugely helpful to me. dunno if they have wireguard equivalents, or if those are needed.
why? protovpn package has been working fine for me on nixos
edit: nevermind, in a server environment you should configure openvpn (i just use protonvpn on my desktop)
I was maybe doing it wrong, but it never worked for me while openvpn did. Glad it works for someone!
I'm sure there are better options, but I'm running proxmox as my host and a windows server VM for my suite.
I'd assume its probably Linux even if it's the worst in terms of Proton support but, its not like you need all the bells and whistles.
Yeah I’m not surprised. Weak Proton support sucks, but for a dedicated media server it’s not the priority
Yeah I mean its understandable why Proton does not prioritize Linux but its a bummer.