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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I set my homelab up on Bazzite immutable with podman and SELinux. It took a while to work everything out and have it boot up into a valid state hahaha

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Any reason you chose Bazzite for your homelab distro? First I've heard of someone doing that!

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

At the start I just wanted a desktop machine that runs Steam through sunshine/moonlight so hardware support and gaming stuff such was very important.

My homelab used to run on my laptop when it could all fit within a couple 100s of GB and I was the only user but moving it was tricky. Since I'm a programmer I'm not afraid of this stuff so I just spent the hours to figure out one problem at a time.

I ended up figuring out adding HDD whitelist in SELinux, make it accessible in podman, manually edit fstab because tools didn't work, systemd service for startup, logging in automatically where I already forgot everything and would have not had to do any of this on a bog standard Ubuntu server.

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Respect! I too often take it for granted that it's a privilege for my gaming rig and my homelab server to be separate boxes.

My server is Almalinux, my laptop is Mint, and my gaming rig is Nobara. But if I had to consolidate everything in to one machine, I'd pick Nobara.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I came to the same conclusion, Nobara for would have been best.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wouldn't an immutable OS be overall a pretty good idea for a stable server?

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Good for stability, bad for flexibility for when the homelab grows more complex.

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I honestly don't know a ton about immutable distros other than that they let you front-load some difficulty in getting things set up in exchange for making it harder to break. I was just surprised that the distro of choice was Bazzite, since its target audience seems to be gamers.