Okay, so CasaOS is easier to set up (but uses more resources and I won’t learn sysadmin stuff) whereas using something like Debian is a bit harder to set up (but uses less resources and learn more!).

Think I might try CasaOS on my 11th gen laptop and plain Debian on my 6th gen laptop and see which I prefer

OHHH that’s why I couldn’t find out how to install it. Got it.

Ah got it. I’ve installed debian since yunohost had issues installing for whatever reason. Weird.

Writing down different commands on a note seems like a good idea. Thanks!

What kind of issues?

TrueNAS scale seems like the perfect option, the only downside is that my old laptops don’t meet the hardware requirements

Cosmos does look quite good. TrueNAS can’t run on my old laptops so HexOS was never really an option

I ended up installing Debian since Yunohost can’t install and my old laptop doesn’t meet the hardware requirements of TrueNAS Scale

thanks for sharing your experience :D

ah okay, gotcha. So no CasaOS then. Lots of others suggest YUNOHost, is that fine?

Woah, there’s a lot. Nice that there’s plenty of options!

thanks! Maybe I could check out cockpit and portainer too…

Thanks, that was really helpful :D

I’ll try CasaOS then, and later maybe I could move to Debian once I get better at the command line!

Linux Mint XFCE, it was easy to setup and could run on my really old laptop.

it is a great game with cute little characters :D

honestly mint really a very easy distro, I enjoyed using it too. Fedora and other distros also seem pretty cool

Linux Mint is a nice and easy distro that is quite good :D

honestly inkscape is great :D I switched from illustrator after my adobe creative cloud subscription expired, and it’s been an easy transition!

that’s cool, and there’s even a USB-C version as well :D

oh that’s sad. I mostly switched out of proton bc I didn’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Also, not having IMAP sucksss because both the official proton and tuta apps are SLOW