I’m a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

  • Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Most self-hosted solutions come as containers, containers are Linux only and on Windows they run under the WSL VM, so eventually (if you are not doing full installs) you are still using Linux

    • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Being a former pure windows guy it’s more like battered wife syndrome.

      Its an abusive relationship but its all you know and hard to leave.

      I’m on bazzite now with a Debian homelab on a SFF.

      Still really new to Linux but I’m trying.

      • ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        12 days ago

        Good for you. If the way Windows behaves now doesn’t drive people to Linux, they’ll never jump. They’ll just keep taking the abuse because they like it.

        I don’t understand starting out on Linux in an immutable distro, but maybe that’s the oldhead in me, I’ve been on Linux since the 90s. I find adding software in those distros to be a massive pain in the ass, as well as dealing with its constraints on configurability. But if it’s working for you, fill your boots. Welcome to the dark side.

  • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Sure, if that’s what you want to do. Though, you’ll probably find less references and expertise here. There is a reason that even Microsoft runs Linux on most of its own servers.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Well yeah but… Why would you? It’s unnecessarily making things hard on yourself for so many reasons.

    My Linux computer is like a giant basket of free Legos and I can build whatever the hell I want easily

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I don’t think that Linux is in the title or description of this community!

    You pick your own poison …

    Mine is Gentoo Linux all the way, yours is Windows. Find two more selfhosters and they will criticize both of us! We are kind of the two extreme of the spectrum…

    Welcome!

    • GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      So true! I met a friend of a friend at a church social last week and he spent the whole time trying to convince me to try FreeBSD instead of selfhosting on Windows. I might try it someday but as polite as he was about it he just couldn’t get the hint lol

  • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
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    13 days ago

    Always. Started on windows hypervisors and windows as they were relevant to my work and I was trying to skill up at the time. Since moved to a Linux stack as the lab grew in scope and my distaste for MS grew as well.

  • tehBishop@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Linux is favored because the ecosystem is more open but you can also run it on low power devices which isn’t really the case with Windows (and getting worse over time) and it’s free with Windows, to be legal, you need to license the cores/VM. Now does anyone actually do that?! I wouldn’t think so.

  • Richard Wonka@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    13 days ago

    That’s just silly.

    Self hosting is all about Digital Autonomy; that’s just not possible with a windows OS.

    Apart from that it would just make your life harder, as the vast majority of documentation and tutorials and helper scripts are based on some linux like OS.

  • Sonalder@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    One step at a time, you will eventually move to GNU/Linux in the future if this new hobby persist. But there is nothing wrong with beginning using software and tools you are already familiar with. However you will probably have to use WSL (Linux inside Windows basically) to make things work and all guides you will find will mostly be based on Docker and/or Linux. So you will definitely use Linux on your Microslop owned machine.

    If you don’t have the time to learn a new OS it’s fine, but it will not necessarly make things easier, especially on the long run. That’s my take on it.

    My very first self-hosting homelab was a Linux Mint old refurbished desktop PC that I was remotely accessing through AnyDesk (I was a Windows kid user at that time). Now I’m on NixOS through SSH and still learning, I do not completely comfortable but I am able to use it and learn while doing so.

    I would highly encourage you to try to run a lightweight beginer friendly Linux distro such as debian, Linux Mint XFCE or Kubuntu if you feel like you need a desktop environement and graphic user interfaces but if you really want to use that Microslop license you bought it’s fine, you will probably switch in the following months or years. Okay maybe not, some people are fine using it.

    You can also take a look at stuff like runtipi, yunohost, CasaOS, ZimaOS, Umbrel, Cloudron and stuff like that. They aim to be beginner friendly self-hosting “OS” or “WebUI”.

  • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Sure, but know you’re doing things the hard way. I started with Win 10, WSL, and Docker Desktop but moving to Linux made things 10x easier, Windows is… difficult.

  • SGG@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I would recommend at most ruining windows as the hypervisor then running Linux virtual machines. Maybe run a windows VM if you have a specific need.

    This is mainly because Linux is much better “supported” for the majority of self hosted projects.

    But you can of course do whatever you want.