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Best distro to turn my old laptop into a server?
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if it's a really old laptop, Ubuntu might be overkill, spec-wise. In that case i would suggest Alpine Linux, it's super lightweight and a really good distro for server use.
Hard agree here. I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running so much crap on it in Docker that I’m always afraid the CPU and RAM are going through the roof but it’s usually super low on resource usage. It runs my smart home too so any strain on resources I’d imagine would be pretty obvious.
Can you run Alpine on a Raspberry Pi? In that case, I might consider it