Yeah I think the distro is less important. Really it's choosing a lightweight DE + web browser will determine if a machine that old will work.
mikyopii
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Why not just run TrueNAS Scale? It's a NAS built on top of Debian?
I've been with Porkbun for over a year now. No complaints.
My GPU is quite literally 15 or 16 years old (I pulled it out of an old server that was being trashed). If you aren't going to do heavy graphical work and just want to spruce up your desktop performance then really anything is probably fine.
I think both these options require downloading additional libraries on your Proxmox host to work.
Cat tax paid.
Under hardware > display there is an option for VirtiO-GPU and VirGL-GPU. I'm not super knowledgeable but I think these options allows VMs to make system calls to the GPU. I put an ancient Quadro in my server and my RDP sessions were noticeably better.
Setup a virtual desktop on your server and RDP into it to access the web interface. Here is me doing that using my cat as a stand lol.
I have a copy of Microsoft Office 2013 on a Windows 11 VM.
If everything is correct... yeah it would. If you are using hostnames to connect home then you will probably need to use the FQDN for it to work.
I was in vacation in Brazil and I would work on my server in the United States during my downtime.
You have WireGuard installed on your Minecraft server? On every computer? That isn't correct.
Once you are successfully connected to the VPN everything should behave like you are physically within your network even if you aren't. You should connect to your Minecraft server like normal.
The WireGuard iOS/Android app has a part where you can see when your last handshake was. If that isn't happening then you aren't connected.
Does it increase your attack surface? Yes. With proper precautions is this level of risk negligible? Also yes.
You will be opening a port to the outside world. Anyone can try to use it. But if you are using key authentication it will be fine.