EndeavorOS. It’s like manjaro but not bad.

I personally use openrc, and I can tell you it’s not perfect

You can replace Systemd with any piece of software in the title and it’d still be correct…

VLC

Papirus… Imo it’s the best looking icon pack out there

Based alpine

I don’t selfhost very much compared to other people and my hardware’s pretty much either all literally found in the garbage or 2nd hand, but here it is

PiHole

WireGuard server that passes trough pihole adblocking

Homarr (lol)

Deluge

The system is mostly a NAS that I also run the occasinal general purpose VM off of, here are the specs for the 3 ppl that care:

CPU: AMD FX-8320E

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 5x2TB Seagate something something 7200RPM in RAIDz1, 128 GB random chinese SSD (mostly for VMs and apps) the, OS runs off of a flash drive

OS: TrueNAS scale

NixOS, this thing is written by wizards for wizards, not for mere mortals like me, I’ma stick to my gentoo, thank you very much

My whole “homelab” is made of either things I literally found in the trash, hand-me downs and 2nd part stuff I got for extremely cheap. It’s no speed deamon, but it’s got 8cores, 16GB ram and gigabit… What I’m trying to say is, that is most likely also an option for you and there is no reason to buy the latest and greatest of hardware for running simple things like pi-hole. As for the electricity bill, unless you’re running something computationally intensive 24/7 or just a ton of hard drives, I wouldn’t worry about it.

Makes me feel like a hacker and makes other ppl think that I’m smarter than I am… That and there are certain things that are just more convenient through the terminal

It’s like WSL, but LSL (Linux subsystem for linux)

any text editor… no, literally

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you own something and it either gets taken away or it gets tarnished in some way, you are fully justified to pirate it…

Ext4? What do you run on your NAS?

Fyi, you don’t need a raspberry pi to use PiVPN, it actually works on all Ubuntu based distros and even Alpine Linux, you can just install it in a VM on your NAS.

Yep, that fixed it, tysm, adding a solved flag and a few quick steps on fixing it for anyone else who might have the same problem, as it does seem to be a common issue with truenas

I got that I need to do something like that but… I have no idea how, I’m very new to TrueNAS

already tried, did not help that much

Here are some of my default choices: Linux Mint, Pop!OS, Nobara, MXLinux (if your PC is kind of a potato).

These distros should work regardless of your configuration with very minimal effort on your side.

Yeh, I’m not a system admin in any meaning of the word, but docker is so simple that even I got around to figuring it out and to me it just exists to save time and prevent headaches (dependency hell)