I am a basic bitch when it comes to hosting -> Nothing exotic, but I have messed with somewhat exotic things before. It is fun, but time consuming, and as I get older the time becomes more precious than money.
Fedora w/ KDE on Workstations, user platforms - every day browsing, gaming, etc. The installations have lasted since fedora 34, and have had very few hiccups (Framework 13, Dell T5820)
Proxmox as Hypervisor hosts (Basically Debian) - been rock solid stable since PVE5.4, and while not perfect has been pretty easy to work with. I am a ZFS evangelist, and ZFS support is excellent.
Debian 11/12 for most vm guests - again, easy to use, straightforward, seems to "just work"
Centos/fedora server for Podman host - IDK, seems that podman has worked the best for me on Redhats own platforms, but this could very well be just personal experience.
OPNsense for firewall/router - Was a longtime pfsense user, but the way the company approaches their userbase started to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
NIXOS for experimentation - its a trip, and loads of fun, but because it drives the tinkering in me I tend not to use it for daily driving.
As I said, its pretty basic, nothing exotic or crazy. I have about 10 machines in my household (5 user facing, 4 servers, firewall)
I am a basic bitch when it comes to hosting -> Nothing exotic, but I have messed with somewhat exotic things before. It is fun, but time consuming, and as I get older the time becomes more precious than money.
Fedora w/ KDE on Workstations, user platforms - every day browsing, gaming, etc. The installations have lasted since fedora 34, and have had very few hiccups (Framework 13, Dell T5820)
Proxmox as Hypervisor hosts (Basically Debian) - been rock solid stable since PVE5.4, and while not perfect has been pretty easy to work with. I am a ZFS evangelist, and ZFS support is excellent.
Debian 11/12 for most vm guests - again, easy to use, straightforward, seems to "just work"
Centos/fedora server for Podman host - IDK, seems that podman has worked the best for me on Redhats own platforms, but this could very well be just personal experience.
OPNsense for firewall/router - Was a longtime pfsense user, but the way the company approaches their userbase started to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
NIXOS for experimentation - its a trip, and loads of fun, but because it drives the tinkering in me I tend not to use it for daily driving.
As I said, its pretty basic, nothing exotic or crazy. I have about 10 machines in my household (5 user facing, 4 servers, firewall)