I think the big deciding factor is how many folks will be watching remotely.

For my case, I use a VPN to tunnel back to my network and watch jellyfin that way. My son also lives away and watches jellyfin, but for him I simply punch a hole in my firewall for only his public ip, which doesn’t change much.

This works for me, but if I had to host for any more ppl, I would likely go the caddy route.

It’s not about the list of things wrong with (in this case) systemd. I don’t like systemd’s approach either, and I think poettering is a pompous ass. But we’re here now.

The great thing about Linux is that when someone comes around and wants xfce with i3 instead of xfwm, they can have that. Most of us might think it’s a stupid idea, but if they want it, they can do it.

So when it came to systemd, no one ran up and said “I don’t like this”, they just didn’t use it, mostly cause it was half-baked. And hey, if some guy wants to build an all-systemd box, go for it.

The crime of systemd is forcing most of us to use it by shipping it by default with Ubuntu, then Debian, then red hat, etc. I see menus in the debian install that ask what DE to use, whether SSH should be installed, etc, but no sysV/OpenRC/systemd menu choice.

The problem isn’t “what’s wrong with systemd”, it’s “why are you removing my choice to pick”. That’s why this list misses the point.

I had to get my glasses to re-read this comment.

You know why anubis is in place on so many sites, right? You are literally blaming the victims for the absolute bullshit AI is foisting on us all.

That is incus. But similar in other implementations of LXC. Docker has similar ratios, but I suspect you know this already.

Also, I fucking hate the person that decided it wasn’t going to do search domains properly or DNS over TCP.

That has been fixed since 3.18.

Look, I’m not sure why you’re challenging me so hard on this, I’m not a superfan of Alpine or anything. I use it when I can because it’s really, really light on memory and so do others. There are lots of cases that don’t work with Alpine, like mongodb, sql, etc. because of what ships with alpine and their philosophy. But there are lots of great uses for alpine as well, like networking or anything that works well with busybox tooling.

Have a better one.

Glibc matters on desktop, but the speed advantage doesn’t really matter to services running in cgroup2 containers borrowing the host’s kernel and namespaces.

For op’s purposes, memory density is important, and alpine base images will need about 10x less memory than their Debian counterparts, mostly due to a very pared-down service layout.

There’s a reason a huge portion of docker images are alpine-based.

Alpine is a fair amount lighter in memory consumption than Debian.

I’m no systemd fan, but this is wacky.

VLANs don’t really enter into the equation here. They are layer 2 and will be important for switch choice, but not for NICs.

Poe does add some complexity, so sfp+ will no longer be a good category for this. You will essentially be reduced to a handful of models for 2.5 or 5g without specs.

You might be at the point in your planning where you need to evaluate why you need 2.5g in the first place. There are very few use cases for 2.5g in the home as it is.

Just go get any of the enterprise parts from a couple years ago. Mellanox, lucent, qlogic, hpe, these are all fairly well supported by freebsd.

I would avoid Broadcom and Realtek, they are better supported today, but performance is an issue.

They’re gonna say the same thing you’ve read here, which is that if you’re going to virtualize TrueNAS, pass through the controller, not just the disks.

If you pass a whole raw disk, not virtualized, then TrueNAS should not complain.

Although Smart data counters live on each individual disk, it is accessed via the disk controller interface. No controller, no smart data.

The easy ui is good for those who aren’t living in the terminal all the time.

I used proxmox for nearly 8 years before switching to only containers. It was fine.

What is your definition of “proper”, in this context?