Hello there lemmings! Finally I have taken up the courage to buy a low power mini PC to be my first homeserver (Ryzen 5500U, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD, already have 6TB external HDD tho). I have basically no tangible experience with Debian or Fedora-based system, since my daily drivers are Arch-based (although I’m planning to switch my laptop over to Fedora).
What’s your experiences with Debian and Rocky as a homeserver OS?
I’m running a mix of Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch on my servers/VMs. All are fine. Having to set up sudo on Debian was a bit annoying, and having to get rid of snap on Ubuntu too, but after that you get a lot of benefit out of the Debian/Ubuntu defaultisms in many guides (and Docker is there to pick up the rest).
If you can maintain Arch, you’ll have a breeze on either Debian or Fedora. There are a few command line tools (apt/dnf and such) that you’ll need to get used to, and it’s possible that certain directories are in a different place, but that’s about all. With unattended-upgrades and scheduled reboots, your interaction with the server should be minimal.
Don’t do Arch unless you like scheduling maintenance.