I choose not to open any ports to the Internet for security reasons. But use tailscale to allow access to my home network while im away. It was an easy setup and can put it on all my devices.

They are solid, the bios was my biggest surprise as there are so many settings i can tweak. Dell and Lenovo both make good boxes for homelabs and run linux well.

NixOS user now. Long time fan of Arch with BTRFS and snapshots but Nix takes everything to the next level.

This man knows. My whole config is stored in github. Super easy to come back to a perfectly setup box or clone it on another machine.

Optiplex 3070, it’s made a good box for jellyfin, truenas etc. SFF is goof for my needs but if i didnt move often i’d get a regular size to hold more HDD

Dell Optipex i loaded my down with max ram and put 2x 2.5hdd and 1 14TB HDD inside. I’ll probably get a storage case for the HDD’s later.

It’s great software! I’ve only had a couple ISOs that it didn’t allow me to install on bare metal.