Very cool! Nextcloud seems to be a common entry point into homelabbing, it was mine too. I prefer OpenOffice for document integration, it's awesome.

There are many ways to set this up more optimally even on your current hardware. For example, instead of using OpenWRT to connect up to your VPN, you could use a docker box, even in an LXC via those Proxmox scripts you refer to, and migrate the *Arr services over to docker containers, having it all use the 'network_mode: "container:VPNContainerName"' process in your stack. This would simplify your setup, having only 1 IP (on your local network) for your entire download stack to more easily access them and less overhead of not needing the virtual router, freeing up more resources otherwise. For why your Portainer would not load into the Console for that container, you might need to update Portainer to portainer/portainer-ce:sts, as I had that issue previously myself. And how are you spinning up your Vaultwarden, is it sharing the same network as NPM, or its own? You can completely isolate things behind NPM without exposing it on your network locally even, so less attack vectors overall to be exploited. Or using NPM, connecting to loopback, to secure its own login with SSL, and firewall to ensure port 81 is only accessible by itself to really close it up.

I switched from Windows to Arch month ago, using kde, I love it

Regarding the email run them as web apps using mints webapp-manager or install edge and use it's app function

If you like defining everything in config files and installing everything as native packages you may enjoy NixOS. Because the whole system is configured in a config file and there are >100,000 packages in nixpkgs so you can usually find what you need.

My two years with Linux will be in January next year & I recently switched to fedora since I'm just loving gnome despite how much shit it gets.

Great video but can you make it more zoomed in please

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Mad respect for reusing all of your older PCs into servers ;)

Hey bro as someone who got the recommended randomly i wanted to comment on your wrap-up comment about "weird rambling; painful to watch". Not at all dude. Watched the whole 25 minutes and I enjoyed your relaxed, laid back style. It is authentic. Keep being yourself and don't sweat it.

What a year!

NVK recently got features added Maxwell and Kepler GPUs but from my understanding it is turned off by default in Mesa as their support is still experimental. It might be turned on in mesa-git but I'm not sure. If that is the case, it might make doing something like Arch + Wayland + Hyprland much easier to accomplish for your hardware as you can grab mesa-git from the AUR (unless if you just decide buy a GPU that is supported by Mesa out of the box). Arch with Hyprland would be a great choice since you liked i3 and you liked to tinker. I run Artix (basically Arch) w/ Hyprland and it has be overall pretty good, even without IBM/Redhat's Soystemd bloatware. If Wayland is still off the table, DWM would be another thing to consider. One thing about Hyprland is that if you used tabs in i3, the same feature is kind of jank out of the box. They're not bound to any hotkeys by default either. There is the hy3 plugin which should be more like i3 but I have not tired it myself as the janky Hyprland groups/tabs are "good enough" for my use case.

why move to intel xeon on epyc? wont it consume lot of power?

Dude, just keep dropping coding stuff

Yes decrease the pitch more, come more closer to the mic, infact give the microphone a bjob ! these annoying mf youtubers never gonna learn ! 💩💩🤡

If you're looking to move to Arch + Hypr. I would suggest to try out Endeavour OS instead of vanilla Arch.

Arch Linux is simply brilliant. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly

great video, will def have to try out some of the things you're running on your homelab

Love the content! Great video and introduction!

As someone who has used Linux for almost 20 years, and growing in disappointment over developments in it, I'm about ready to take the 1 year FreeBSD challenge.

hey, people can help me for my homelab, i need help please

So to be at risk of sounding like a fanboy, do a little research into docker. Even if you dont wind up using it at home, it is a good stepping stone to learning kubernetes. I personally have a wide variety of hoasting strategies depending on what exactly it is im hoasting. But it not uncommon for me to run some LXC containers with a few different docker compose stacks (did I mention docker compose? Its also a good thing to learn after you learn docker CLI, changed my life). What im running for hardware is a used dell t7600 workstation as my windows server (yeah ew, I know, but i have a 2022 licence) but im starting to move away from that. Its a dual E5 20xx V1 Xeon machine with 256gb ram. Dell claims it also runs V2 xeons but Ive yet to find V2 cpus that work in it. I also have a dell R720 server running proxmox, its the defacto standard of the home datacenter. Dual xeon E5 V2 with 2 tesla M40 GPUs, 384 gb ram. I also have a dell c6200 4 node blade server. Its been sitting in yhe corner waiting for me to learn kubernetes because thats what I want to use it for. Other than that I have many several cheap computers that I use with ProxMox for other odds and ends that are clustered back to my r720 and will pick up other services (high availability) if something goes down or crashes. Network is a PfSence box for my router firewall, a cisco catalyst 2900 series gigabit switch (with POE) half a mile of cat 5 and 6, and any junk wifi routers incould find in access point mode that im getting read to set up with RADIUS authentication. So my advice, since i used to work in E waste when I was starting in IT (I was their help desk guy for a while) look at used junk and get stuff as cheap as possible. Your wallet will thank you and you will be surprised what people are getting rid of.

Love how chill these videos are 🤙

Everything that makes linux worthwhile to use is because of canonical and Ubuntu, they work with oems and other hardware manufacturers to vamp up support, they work with gnome and others to improve linux for everyone something you cant say about every other distro. Before you inherit Ubuntu hate from linux youtubers know if you delete ubuntu then you have linux back to square one just made for computer scientists. All those distros that need ubuntus ubuntus user friendly base would suffer.

And BTW if you want a good office suite on linux, dont let anyone fool you as theres nothing that beats WPS office

18 years running the most popular noob distro. Has its ups and downs but canonical hasn't let me down yet

Only 2 mins in so not sure if you mention it later but the goxlr has an official open source driver + application to control it (looks exactly like the windows app and all functionality for it works out of the box). Goxlr was the one thing holding me back from switching years ago but now it's a non issue really

Try CachyOS when you can, i understand you "use the base distro" but CachyOS is great, and every Arch derived distro change very little, and CachyOS comes with great stuff. For me, CachyOS + arch tweak tools (a Arch tool from Arco) is an amazing combo.

Great video. You got a knack for making videos. I stumbled across your channel cause I was looking at a bunch of home lab stuff for ZFS and 100Gbps home networking. Keep documenting your journey and growing. You have a bright future in IT if you want to go down this path.

Great video Chief. I love your detailed breakdown. Sadly my Minisforum MS-01 (12900H) mini pc I bought in May died a few days ago☹️. I used it as a Proxmox server I hosted my gns3 server , phpipam, and other containers on.

Hello great video. I am still stuck on getting Openwrt with OpenVPN setup. I use the helper scripts to create the Openwrt and can add the OpenVPN client but I am confused with the interfaces and how to have my LXC connect through the VPN. Any clarity on how you did it or could you make a video? A lot of people will start heading in this direction as LXC keeps getting more and more popular. Thanks

I love GNOME when it works... I can put all the mods and plugins to make it usable... but then updates kill off plugins, and then I fight again and its so annoying. If GNOME ever gets the basic features I need, I might use it again, but it often just doesn't work right. KDE Plasma is great though... I rarely have an issue, it runs great... but I love options... lots and lots of options. FYI, Fedora is developed by the Fedora Project... while they are sponsored by RedHat, and RedHat uses them as an upstream for RHEL, RedHat doesn't actually run the Fedora Project. I'm kind of glad RedHat did what they did with their RHEL source and CentOS. Its made some others come out and make their own things, including improvements, instead of just 1 for 1 copying RHEL and slapping their names on it.

Nice! I do hope you take care of backing up your data as you do not run any raid array. For me that just feels like playing with fire as hard drives will fail eventually. It's not the question if it fails, but when. Running raid can be expensive (although just a cheap second drive would be way more secure than no raid) so I get why you might run on a single stripe. But be aware that if a drive or even a satacable fails, it could mess up your entire system. And if you do not run frequent backups, your gonna wish you did. Especially as you run some critical apps like vaultwarden, which is probably quite important to get acces to a lot of other stuff. Back up!! Also when running raid ofcourse...

Yo been on EndeavorOS and Vanilla Arch for a year, I absolutely LOVE using the AUR to install things in the terminal, using my PC has never been so quick and easy!

A homelab was never really an option for me. I would use it for services like nextcloud and emby which require rather high upload speeds. Thats why I opted for a bare metal server at hetzner. I pay it monthly and host all my docker containers there. I have a dockge instance to remotely manage my docker containers. But i am also transitioning to using ansible to set everything up. The server has two HDDs and two SSDs. I use the SSDs directly and the HDDs are used in a seaweed setup. I just have seaweed localy installed and run a filer, master and volume server. The two drives are connected and then mounted via a fuse mount. All big container data is hosted there. Small configs etc are hosted on one of the SSDs. Containers I use: audiobookshelf (audible replacement) emby jellyfin gitlab-ce homarr minecraft (via itzg/minecraft-server) nextcloud (nginx, php-fpm, mariadb) [I want to miograte maria to postgres] Nginx proxy manager ombi (dont really use it anymore) paperless ngx (document management) picoshare (hosting static file links to e.g. embedded images) watchtower (used for discord notifs of upgradable containers) I have a second server that I use as a testing environment On that I have authentik installed since I want to have a one stop shop for authentication to my containers. Also I have caddy set up there since it is way more practical for an automated setup.

funfact the destination in nginx reverse proxy manager can also be the docker container names as long as they resolve on your network (which they do in a default setup)

Great! I subscribed to your rss feed for selfhosting

As a debian user plasma 5 is STILL the "newest" version on debian

Great video. Got my sub. Very similar to my journey but better. So I got a heap of top tips. Cheers.

Brilliant video, definately given me some ideas for things I can implement. Looking forward to seeing your upgraded setup following best practices :)

Great video dude. I am in the early stages, running docker on a bare metal debian server off an old laptop with some usb drives plugged into it. Full on janky. Theres lots if want to redo and like you said new hardware will probably be the push to get going. With Immich is there any compression algorithms like Google Photos has? I'm hovering around 250k photos mostly done by my wife and GPhotos has the image saver quality which she uses to save space (non-professional photos) and that be a nice feature if eventually I rebuild with redundancy etc.

I went from 2 years on garuda "first distro" to fedora kde and im loving it lol, after 20 years of windows I feel free, I'm a newb and loving it, the tinkering is a feature not a bug

Gratz, I've been on for 2.5 years, could've been more but that bit coin/video card fiasco, with elevated prices stopped me from doing it for about 2 before that.

Lmao when he said "But this won't last much longer I want to build an overkill system" literally me a few years ago. Started with a single cheap dell server w/ same router running openwrt and now I have a threadripper, I barely know how to use it fully, but god I love. Overkill server never dissapoints :)

When you dual boot and having troubles with the time, Linux puts your system clock in UTC and depending on your time-zone displays the correct time. All the Unix "like" systems do this, even BSD and Macos. Windows puts your system clock in local time. To work around this you can put your linux install in local time Our you can put windows in UTC.

That’s the first time I’ve heard someone say “pterodactyl” with a silent T instead of a silent P

If you want convenience, like easy asf homelab, go with unraid. If you want anything resembling performance however then….don’t

if you like gnome, you should try the cosmic desktop alpha. ive heard its pretty good, and it has a tiling mode

Thank you, I discovered Collabora thanks to you, so im adding it to my Nextcloud

Love the video! Recently started to get into Homelab and Selfhosting stuff. Been having fun! What did you use to create the logical diagram? I've been using Paint and just want to see if anything better exists haha